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Training and exercises — edited Aug 31, 2026 by Unknown editor
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## Individual training
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- **FEMA independent study** (free, online): IS-100, IS-200, IS-700, IS-800. Many EOCs require these
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before granting access.
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- **ARRL Emergency Communications courses** (EC-001 and up).
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- **SKYWARN spotter training** — one evening, run by the National Weather Service.
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- First aid and CPR — routinely more useful than any radio skill.
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## Group exercises
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- **Weekly net** — the baseline. Attendance is the single best predictor of activation performance.
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- **Simulated Emergency Test (SET)** — the annual ARRL exercise.
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- **Field Day** — not an exercise officially, but it tests every skill an activation needs. See
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[Field Day](/wiki/activities/field-day).
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- **Winlink Wednesday** and similar digital drills.
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- **Joint exercises with the served agency** — the only way to discover that your radios and their
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procedures do not match while it is still cheap to find out.
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## What exercises reliably reveal
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Dead batteries, an antenna nobody can put up in the dark, a laptop with an expired password, and a
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frequency list nobody printed. That is precisely the point of running them.