- AMATEUR RADIO EMERGENCY SERVICE (ARES) is a volunteer organization. There are no dues or membership fees associated with being part of ARES. The only qualification, other than possession of an Amateur Radio license, is a sincere desire to serve.
- To join ARES, please fill out an ARES membership form HERE and take it to a meeting of your local ARES group.
- If your local ARES group has an application form that requires additional information
over the standard ARRL form, complete that as needed.
- To join GA ARES, notify your local County Emergency Coordinator (EC) that you want to be involved.
- If you want to help in an emergency situation where GA ARES is involved, please let us know how you can help by completing this form which lets us know your training and equipment availability. Give the completed form to your local County EC who can enter the data into your profile for you or you can request the EC give you access to update your profile yourself.
The GA ARES membership database is located HERE.
- The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) is an entity of and operates under the auspices of the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). You are not required to exclude yourself or resign from membership in other emergency communication (emcomm) programs or activities because of your involvement in ARES.
- The actual intent and spirit of ARES is meant to foster cooperative assistance and training with any formal or informal program or activity that assists or directly serves the common good in the community, county, state (AuxComm), federal entity (FEMA, MARS, etc.), or Volunteer Organization (ARC, SATERN, etc.). This cooperation with other EmComm entities is well documented on the ARRL web site.
- There are, however, special purpose programs in ARES – Mutual Assistance Team, Strike Team, and Hospital network, that have the expectation of commitment to service and engagement. Some of the EmComm roles are critical to the group's response in a real emergency. Successful and reputable response to a significant emergency is not possible without committed leaders and communicators. If critical personnel cannot meet the expectation of committed service, they should step down or be replaced.
A Section-wide Net is held every Sunday afternoon at 22:00 UTC (6:00 pm during Eastern Daylight Time(summer) and 5:00pm during Eastern Standard Time(winter)) on 3.975 MHz LSB. This is a directed net. Please follow the instructions of the Net Control Station.
For more information, go to Net Info.
Georgia ARES has a Section-wide meeting annually, usually in January. Notice of the meeting will be placed on this website and announcements made via the Georgia ARES reflector and Section-wide nets.