Dave Kalter Youth DX Adventure (YDXA) to be on the Air July 19 – 24

FEMA released two
revised online ICS/NIMS courses last month:

IS-100.c, An
Introduction to the Incident Command System

This
course introduces the Incident Command System (ICS) and provides the
foundation for higher level ICS training. The course describes the history, features
and principles, and organizational structure of the Incident Command
System. It also explains the relationship between ICS and the National Incident
Management System (NIMS).

IS-700.b, An Introduction
to the National Incident Management System

This
course provides an overview of NIMS, which defines the comprehensive approach
guiding the whole community – all levels of government, nongovernmental
organizations (NGOs), and the private sector – to work together seamlessly to
prevent, protect against, mitigate, respond to, and recover from the
effects of incidents. The course provides learners with a basic understanding of
NIMS concepts, principles, and components.

Together,
these two online courses form the foundation of ICS/NIMS training for all
incident personnel. Note that IS-100.c and IS-700.b are updated versions of
the IS-100.b and IS-700.a courses. If you have successfully completed a
previous version of these courses there is no FEMA requirement to take the
revised versions of the courses. However, because these courses contain new
information based on the revised NIMS, October 2017, you may find it
informative to review the new versions of these courses. The new courses will be
available through FEMA's EMI website.

To ARRL Contest Participants,

We are pleased to announce that through the extraordinary efforts of Bruce Horn, WA7BNM, together with Trey Garlough, N5KO, Ward Silver, N0AX, and the ARRL IT Team, the ARRL's Contest Program has begun making contest award certificates available for download from the ARRL web in PDF and JPG formats.

The web page to access these certificates is: http://contests.arrl.org/certificates.php – just enter the call sign.

Three events are currently available for downloads:


–          2017 IARU HF Championship

–          2017 ARRL 222 MHz and Up Distance Contest

–          2017 ARRL September VHF Contest

Future certificates for more current events, as well as past events going back well over a decade, will be made available in the next few weeks.

This new online-certificate feature will offer enhanced content over what has been offered previously on ARRL certificates, and makes certificates available to a greater number of participants. New recognitions have been added for top-ten participants in a broader number of geographical (Country, Division, Section) or categorical entries.

New event-certificate releases will be announced as they become available.

73,

Bart Jahnke, W9JJ
Contest Branch Manager
ARRL – The national association for Amateur Radio(tm)
225 Main St
Newington CT 06111
860-594-0232
w9jj@arrl.org<mailto:w9jj@arrl.org>

The Dave Kalter Youth DX Adventure was just granted the Curacao call  sign of PJ2Y for this year's trip. Our departure is only days away and  everyone is excited. We plan to arrive and be QRV the evening of July  19 through the 24th. That assumes no traveling issues.

There are plans to upload logs periodically to Club Log.