The New Hanover County Amateur Radio Emergency Services is a volunteer radio communications service available to Federal, state, county and local governments, as well as non-profit organizations. Amateur Radio operations all over the nation have formed groups to provide reliable communications for governmental agencies and/or non-profit organizations when needed.

ARES® can provide many types of communications including voice, morse code, radioteletype, television, and computer modes including TCP/IP connections to the Internet. In addition, email of amateur radio is now available using Winlink 2000. This system will allow a computer connected to an amateur radio to provide an email server for the local network and if the internet is not available, will send the message over amateur radio to a distant server that does have internet access.

For more information, www.nhcncares.org