Alert For Emergency

Often mistaken as being the Search and Rescue Organisation, the A.R.E.C. , (Amateur Radio Emergency Corps) is actually an entirety in itself.

Besides working in full co-operation with the Search and Rescue Organisation or Civil Defence, the corps is always available at any time, day or night, for emergency communications.

For example, if the Post Office telephone and telegraph communications break down, messages can always be passed through the highly organised network of private stations sited throughout the country.

If the Police were to need extra communications when normal channels were not available, then the A.R.E.C., can always help out.

The corps has always close liaison with the Search and Rescue Organisation, and in the event of an operation by them does supply all the communications.

A dedicated band of men, the word amateur belies the professional standard of the corps work, and their equipment.

All service is voluntary and, apart from a small Government allowance to run the organisation, they provide the finance out of their own pockets.