A two-day emergency exercise including both the
Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) and the ARRL's Amateur Radio Emergency
Service (ARES) is being termed a success, the ARRL Letter reports, especially with
regard to cooperation between the two groups.
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The purpose of the
exercise, English said, was to exchange usable information from the local level
to the national level in a crisis, adding that success is possible "only
through … cooperation among MARS and the larger amateur radio community."