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The Lincoln County Amateur Radio EMA team will be participating in the Winter Field Day Amateur Radio event in Damariscotta on January 29th. The event will take place in the municipal parking lot of Damariscotta near the boat launch. Start of radio operations at 2 p.m.
LCART is part of the Lincoln County Emergency Management Agency (EMA), made up of approximately 20 licensed amateur volunteers. Volunteers train to be backup communicators in the event that normal communications (including cell towers) fail.
Emergency Communications or EmComm includes all means and modes of public safety communication in government agencies (e.g. law enforcement, fire departments, emergency medical services). Amateur radio operators can assist with these communications before, during, and after declared emergencies, disasters, or planned special security events.
The “Hambulance” is the fun name we use for our EmComms vehicle, serving wherever emergency communication is needed in Lincoln County, especially when cellular and internet service is unavailable. The vehicle is equipped to handle voice and digital communications, not only locally here in Lincoln County, but throughout the state of Maine.
We are a RACES team. RACES stands for Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service, a protocol created by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC Part 97, Section 407). RACES Volunteer Operators are: 1. Licensed Radio Amateurs, 2. Certified by a Civil Defense Agency 3. Capable of communicating on amateur radio frequencies during drills, drills, and emergencies 4. Enabled by jurisdictions local, county, and state and the only amateur radio operators authorized to transmit during declared emergencies, when the President of the United States specifically invokes the War Powers Act.
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