Delaware Army MARS

About Delaware Army MARS

The Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS) is an organization of licensed Amateur Radio Operators working with military stations, who are interested in military communications and electronics. MARS creates interest and furnishes a means of training members in military communications procedures. It provides a potential reserve of trained radio communications personnel to provide auxiliary communications for military, civil, and/or disaster officials during periods of emergency and provides Department of Defense sponsored emergency communications on a local, national, and international basis as an adjunct to normal communications. Army MARS is directed by the NETCOM/9th Army Signal Command out of Ft. Huachuca, AZ. MARS provides a volunteer manned communications system for handling MARS administrative traffic, morale and quasi-official record and voice communications traffic for U. S. Armed Forces and authorized U. S. government civilian personnel stationed throughout the world. Finally, it offers training designed to stimulate interest in military communications and electronics career fields.

If you are interested in Emergency Communications, or handling traffic to include morale traffic for military personnel and their families, you should check out Army MARS. There are numerous radio nets daily throughout the Army MARS Eastern Area to participate in, once you are an authorized member.

More Members Means More capacity to meet the Needs and Goals of MARS:

To Provide a Back-up Resource for 'Client' agencies and Command Structures in Natural or Man-Made Emergencies.

To Pass Morale and Military Messages of a non-combat nature to and from the United States and Military installations and Ambassadorial locations worldwide.

To provide a trained Cadre of Volunteer Radio Communications personnel in the event need should arise for such.

Delaware Army MARS main mission is to provide emergency communications support and radio communications network engineering and maintenance support to the Delaware Army National Guard. Delaware Army MARS maintains a statewide network of three VHF repeaters and a statewide VHF packet network. We also operate a mobile emergency communications trailer as well as a state gateway with connections to other federal and state agencies. Delaware MARS assists in the support of the Delaware National Guard State Area Command (STARC) radio station and backup radio communications in many of the state's armories.

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