Ward ERC Rep Responsibilities

Ward Emergency Response Communications Representative Responsibilities for the Ontario Stake

• 1) Pray to gain a testimony of your calling.  You were called by inspiration, the Lord has a work for you to do, Emergency Response Communications is a program of the Lord’s church for the last days.  Personal, family, ward, stake and church preparation are a part of the Lord’s commandments to help his saints prepare for the Last Days.

• 2)     Be actively participating in the weekly stake nets as much as possible, recommended no fewer than 75% on average. 
  

• 3)     Learn how to, and serve as net control for stake nets. 

• 4)     Upgrade your license – Licenses are the hardest part to get compared to purchasing and installing equipment, and they allow you to do the next most needed part: practice and improve your proficiency and skillset. 

• Your upgrading your license helps inspire others that they can also “do hard things.” 

• 5)     Work towards having: portable, bug out capabilities; mobile capabilities; hf capabilities. 

• 6)     Become competent at working with uhf, vhf simplex, repeaters, hf simplex, WINLINK, FLDIGI MFSK32, JS8 Call, digital, participating in the bishop’s storehouse nets.

•  7)     Work with elder’s quorum, High Council (Bro. Turner) on getting the call tree rolled out to your ward for emergency communications.   

• 8)     Invite members to net activities. 

• 9)     Encourage members to get equipped and licensed. 

• 10)  As inspired, put on training activities for your wards, or invite members to activities, such as a field activation, learning POTA (Parks On The Air), antenna building classes, learning how to use a multi-meter, soldering, etc.