Welcome to ARES Oklahoma.

Mission Statement

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Emergency Resources

• Section breakdown view of the state, useful for contacting groups
• County resources view, to quickly find services and or resources for a given county.

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Steps to become an ARES Oklahoma Member

1. To be an officer within the ARES Oklahoma organization, you must be a member of the ARRL. You can go to www.arrl.org and join up there. You can typically join up at any of the local ham fests (and usually get extra goodies in the process). This associates your call sign with ARES at the national level.
2. You must go to www.aresok.org/mkApplication.asp and apply to be a part of the section. This adds your name to the list that local incident commanders use in trying to find ARES members for emergencies. Additionally, if you are joining as an AEC or above, this is the web site that has all of the tools you'll need to participate within the section reporting structure. This associates your call sign with ARES at the local section level.
3. If you are applying to be an officer within ARES Oklahoma, you must fill out our personal information release form and mail to the current SEC. This gives ARES Oklahoma the legal coverage deemed necessary for liability issues regarding the web site.
4. You must join the "aresoklahoma" Yahoo!Group at groups.yahoo.com/group/aresoklahoma (then click on the big blue "Join This Group!" button at the top right). This is how we broadcast all section events, information, etc. that is of a timely or critical nature.
5. If you are an EC, a DEC, or a ZEC, you must also download a copy of the ARES Oklahoma Section Plan and, using it as a template, edit the section(s) starting on page 14 that apply to your position within the organization. Once you are finished, your plan should be emailed to Mr. Charles Goodson for approval. Once approved, you would then pass it up the chain of command (ie. EC's edit their information into the EC section on page 15 and mail it to their DEC; their DEC would collect all of the EC's sections mailed to them, and insert it into their own copy of this plan and after adding their own information, mail it to their ZEC; and so on). This gives uniformity to all of the operations of ARES in Oklahoma, as the bulk of data for the rules, etc., will be maintained as STANDARD across the section. The finished document, with all EC, DEC, and ZEC additions, will be the definitive statement of ARES in Oklahoma. Looking through it, any incident commander working any disaster within the state will have all the information needed to find the ARES members in the section.

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