Connecticut Amateur Radio Emergency Service® Current status: Level 0 – All is quiet!
Connecticut Amateur Radio Emergency Service® Current status: Level 0 – All is quiet!

Activation Levels

CT ARES ® Alert Levels CT ARES ® Alert Level Conditions Current Status
Level 0 – Inactive! Normal Conditions.  No known event likely to occur.      Pointing Hand
Level 1 – Alert! Will only occur if something happens (time to load the car, make sure everything is ready).
Level 2 – Standby! High likelihood of deployment – make final preparations.
Level 3 – Deploy! Will only occur if a served agency asks for help.
CT ARES® at Level 0 (All is quiet!!)


 

Your EC and DEC are your points of contact as always.  In case of emergency when phone service is disrupted, the following (in priority order) are the best ways to volunteer.  Please remember that anyone who self dispatches will be turned away.

The ways to check in when phone service is disrupted are:

First Choice – Your local ARES® 2-meter or other communications links

Second Choice – The linked repeater system – The CT ARES® Resource and Planning Net:

 
Repeater Site Freq. (Mhz) PL Callsign Notes
Barkhamsted 147.270 + 151.4 KB1AEV/R Linked Full Time
Harwinton 444.650 + 151.4 KB1AEV/R Linked Full Time
Meriden 224.800 – 77.0 K1HSN/R Linked As Needed
Meriden 444.200 + 151.4 KB1AEV/R Linked Full Time
Somers 441.800 + 151.4 N1TUP/R Linked Full Time
Torrington 147.240 + 151.4 KB1AEV/R Linked Full Time
Torrington 442.250 + 151.4 KB1AEV/R Linked Full Time
Vernon 147.345 + 151.4 KB1AEV/R Linked Full Time
Vernon 224.360 – 151.4 KB1AEV/R Linked Full Time
Vernon 442.600 + 151.4 KB1AEV/R Linked Full Time
Watertown 441.650 + 151.4 KB1AEV/R Linked Full Time

Third Choice – 3.965 MHz – CT Phone Net and Statewide HF Communications

During non-emergencies please contact your EC, ADEC, or DEC.