Gwinnett ARES

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The Gwinnett Amateur Radio Emergency Service (Gwinnett ARES) is a corps of trained amateur radio operator volunteers organized to assist in public service and emergency communications; it is sponsored by the American Radio Relay League. Located in In the Gwinnett County, Georgia which is part of the Atlanta Metropolitan Area, it is organized as a 501c3 non-profit corporation.

Affiliated with the Gwinnett County Homeland Security/Emergency Management Agency, which is part of the Gwinnett County Police Department, the Gwinnett ARES is headed by an Emergency Coordinator and is appointed in two year terms by the ARES Section Emergency Coordinator at the state level and is not affiliated with any RACES groups.

The Gwinnett ARES operates the amateur radio station WX4NET. In addition, they also operate a mobile command center with a station for use in emergencies or natural disasters. The command center is also used for public demonstrations such as field day, JOTA and Amateur Radio Kids Day.

The organization develops and maintains the Emergency Service Packet Client software suite [1] The software includes utilities for Packet radio and NTS Message Handling.


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