Mark your calendars... EmComm East 2010 will be held in Rochester, New York on September 18, 2010!

Stay tuned for more details as we bring you a terrific conference this year.

EmComm East was recently featured in the January/February 2010 issue of National Communications magazine.

Click here to check out the article.

Thanks so much to Jim Sutton, N2OPS for covering the conference.

Chuck Blocher, Ph.D., KC2IQV, from Monroe County ARES/RACES will be presenting his EmComm East presentation "The Emtional Go Kit" as an Atlantic Division Webinar.  Congratulations, Chuck!

Atlantic Division to Host Webinar (Nov 10, 2009) -- Periodically, the ARRL’s Atlantic Division hosts a "webinar" -- an interactive Web-based seminar, designed to facilitate communication between a small number of presenters and a large remote audience using the Internet. On Friday, November 13 at 9 PM EST, Chuck Blocher, PhD, KC2IQV, will present a webinar entitled The Emotional Go Kit: Are You Prepared? "As hams serve as emergency and public service communicators, we prepare our Go Kits and necessary gear to provide essential communications," said webinar sponsor ARRL Atlantic Division Director Bill Edgar, N3LLR. "How prepared are you concerning your emotional wellness during one of these events? This webinar addresses the emotional well-being and preparedness for those Amateur Radio communicators who participate in emergency and public service situations." Please click here to register for this informative, interactive Internet meeting.

On behalf of Monroe County ARES, Inc., we'd like to thank everyone who made EmComm East a huge success!  If you attended this year, we hope that you learned a few things and had the opportunity to network with other emergency communications volunteers.

If you have any photos you would like to share with us, drop us an e-mail at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .  We'll post a link on our website once we have pictures to share.

If you are interested in downloading presentation handouts, this page lists the presentation handouts made available to us by the presenters.

If you missed out this year, leave us an e-mail address and we'll be sure to let you know once we've set a date for next year.

EmComm East is pleased to announce that New York Office of Fire Prevention and Control will be bringing the New York Task Force Two communications vehicle.

The primary mission of NY-TF2 is to utilize specialized resources and trained personnel to locate, extricate, provide immediate medical treatment to victims trapped in collapsed structures, swiftwater/flooding events, and to conduct life-saving operations in other specialized technical rescue situations.

Following the Oklahoma City bombing, The Capital District Urban/Technical Search and Rescue Team, also known as The New York Task Force 2 (NY-TF2) was developed to provide a group of highly qualified rescue personnel readily available for rapid assembly and deployment to the scene of an emergency where their services are requested. The mission of NY-TF2 is to provide integrated, skilled urban/technical search and rescue units in situations where local emergency resources desire this assistance. In addition to the above duties the team will cooperate and assist FEMA USAR resources when these are deployed to the same incident.

NY-TF2 is a cooperative effort of both State and local resources. NYS Office of Fire Prevention and Control developed the Technical Rescue training program, outfitted the team with an equipment cache of technologically advanced tools and devices, and continues to provide technical, administrative and fiscal support to the team. Local emergency response organizations provide personnel to staff the various positions.

Special thanks to Tom Howard and Tony Pazzola for their effort in bringing this vehicle to EmComm East.

EmComm East is pleased to announce that the Monroe County Mobile Communications Unit will be on display at this year's conference.

This multi-purpose vehicle is the latest component in the County's strategy to achieve interoperability in the delivery of emergency services to the community. MCU1 has the ability to provide on-scene dispatch and radio assistance to law enforcement personnel for a wide array of incidents. The vehicle also crosses over multiple frequency spectrums; enabling inter-communication between several County, State and Federal agencies. The interoperability of the MCU serves a critical role in delivering County and City government services to the community during the response and mitigation of any emergency.