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● Introduction & Index ● What is PR ● Job Expectations ● Types of Media ● Building Relationships ● Media, Hams & FCC Rules ● The Basic News Release ● Interviews and Live ● Making your own show ● Easy P.R. ● Public Service Events ● Piggy-back to Events ● Pictures NOW! ● P.R. Research Aids ● Making Friends ● ARES® PIO ● Final Exam Information Next Page

Ask for space on the event information table or for your own info table. Handouts can include: Address of ARRL for prospective ham mailing, list of local clubs or classes, and brochures describing Amateur Radio. You may want to collect names and addresses of interested persons and forward them to ARRL for the prospective ham mailing (using sign-up slips and a “bucket” or other methods).Arrange for visible means of identifying each ham participant and station. Signs on mobile communications vehicles and ball caps or vests with the words Ham Radio on them are excellent. The general public should be able to read these from a distance. Buttons, ribbons, vests, arm-bands, sashes and badges are also good, but in a crowded environment, baseball caps stand out well. Some event sponsors find it to their advantage to have the hams easy to locate in a crowd and may provide reimbursement for such items. Ask them! Here’s a simple handout text you can modify with your own local contact information
For better or worse, Emergency Planning has become an important part of our society. Each of us is being asked to develop the abilities to help ourselves and others in a disaster. Would you bet your life that the phones and Internet will still be working? Would you bet the lives of others? Even if they still function, phones and email based systems can be overwhelmed in a crisis, while critical calls are often blocked.
Each year hundreds of thousands of Americans volunteer their time and energies for the improvement and safety of their communities. Mechanics turn into firemen when the alarm sounds. Hairdressers become EMT’s . Engineers turn into auxiliary policemen. America has a long and proud history of these “Minutemen” who answer the call to service in times of emergency…. And a lot of them are “Hams!“ The Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®) is a national, voluntary organization of FCC licensed Hams -special radio operators who provide communications in an emergency and are organized through the American Radio Relay League. This group has provided emergency communications services for everything from shipwrecks and storms to the disaster of 9-11. Because each radio station operator is independent but still can talk to each other, it works…. Even when the wires are down When there is no fax machine The internet is gone The “trunk line” is jammed And the cell phone is dead Want to know more about ARES ? Go to www.Emergency-Radio.org