ARES

In North America, ARES (Amateur Radio Disaster Services,Amateur Radio Emergency Service) provides organisation and training for amateur radio volunteers to ensure readiness in time of disaster or civil emergency. ARES volunteers may also provide communications for large public events. Groups are normally organised on a local, county or regional basis. While the ARES name is trademarked for use by American Radio Relay League-backed groups in the US and by RAC member groups in Canada, similar emergency communication groups do serve similar roles under different names in various nations worldwide.

United States

• Amateur Radio Disaster Services (ARES/ARDS)
• Amateur Radio Earning Praise, Respect in Hurricane Katrina Relief, ARRL, Sep 2005
• Open Directory Project: List of local ARES groups

Canada

• RAC ARES
• ARES Ontario - Ottawa, Toronto

See also

• Emergency Communications
• Weather spotting

Operating procedures
Operation	Callsigns and ITU prefixes * Codes and Alphabets * Modes * Morse code * Nets * UK licensing * Terminology
DX and Contesting	Awards and Certificates * DXCC * DX cluster * Field day * Gridsquares * Logging * QSL and QSL Bureaus * Records - Distance
Emergencies	Emergency Frequencies * ARES * IRESC * SATERN * Weather spotting
QRP	Trail-Friendly Radio
Utilities	Beacons (/B) and Time Beacons