Today we shuffled the presentations around a bit to accommodate several new presentations:

• Civil Preparedness Initiative
• EmComm at the Presidential Inauguration
• Primer for the New Volunteer EmComm Manager
• ARES Mutual Aid System

If you haven't seen the schedule, you should check it out. There's a lot of great EmComm presentations for our conference this year!

We hope to see you in a few weeks.

We are pleased to announce this year's keynote speaker from the ARRL, Steve Ewald, WV1X.

Steve is the Supervisor of the ARRL Field Organization Team at Headquarters where he is the lead staff liaison to ARRL Section Managers and ARRL Field Organization appointees.  He edits the Public Service column in QST and helps support the ARRL efforts in emergency and public service communications. 

Steve has been on the staff at ARRL Headquarters for 28 years.  He is originally from Knoxville, Tennessee, and has a B.S. degree in Communications from the University of Tennessee.

We have a terrific lineup of presentations at this year's conference.  Check it out:

Conference Program and Schedule

We still need a few programs, so if you are interested in presenting, we encourage you to submit a proposal!

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.