Links

Public Service

Adventist Community Services

www.communityservices.org

Humanitarian agency of the Seventh-day Adventist Church that works within the USA and Bermuda, meeting people's immediate needs through tutoring and mentoring programs, youth volunteer corps, health screening, education and assistance, inner city missions, and disaster response.

American Red Cross

https://www.redcross.org

Every 8 minutes the American Red Cross responds to an emergency.

Catholic Social Services - Rapid City

https://www.cssrapidcity.com

211 Help Line

www.helplinecenter.org/2-1-1-community-resources/

The mission of the Helpline Center is making lives better by giving support, offering hope and creating connections all day, every day.

FEMA Student ID registration page

https://cdp.dhs.gov/femasid/register

In order to take any of the FEMA online courses you will need the FEMA student ID. Registration is free and easy.

FEMA Emergency Management Institute

https://training.fema.gov/is/crslist.aspx

This link will direct you to the webpage with all of the FREE online courses you can take . PERT and COMMS team members are required to pass IS100 and IS700. IS200 and IS800 are highly recommended.

MetEd

https://www.meted.ucar.edu/sea... (more)

Weather spotter training and much more. From the website; "MetEd is a free collection of hundreds of training resources intended for the geoscience community. Whether you're an experienced meteorologist honing existing skills or a student looking for new geoscience topics of interest, we have something for you."

Ham Radio

Amateur Radio Relay League

https://www.arrl.org

Your link to the wonderful world of ham radio. There is a veritable cornucopia of information available at this website!

QRZ

https://www.qrz.com/index.html

This website is the "who's who" of ham radio. QRZ is the Q signal established many years ago for hams using Morse code, and it means "Who is calling me?" In the upper left corner where it says "enter query" type in KE0QAN to see our Prairie Patriots amateur radio club page. You can enter any callsign there to see their information.

Ham Study

https://hamstudy.org/

A very nice FREE website to practice for your ham license tests. No nonsense flash card type approach.

NBEMS / FLDigi video tutorials

https://www.youtube.com/user/K4REF

A collection of very good video tutorials about how to set up and use the FLDigi suite of software to use digital communication modes over ham radio to send and receive messages.

SD Link

sdlink.org/

Website for the South Dakota Link, showing all the repeaters in the state link, including information on location, frequencies, PL tones, etc.

Sioux Empire Amateur Radio Club

http://www.w0zwy.org/

Welcome to the Sioux Empire Amateur Radio Club (SEARC) website. SEARC is a diverse group of amateur radio operators (Hams) that are interested in learning, collaborating and promoting the hobby, sport and service of amateur radio in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota metropolitan area and southeast South Dakota. SEARC is an ARRL affiliated club.

Health / Welfare

American Heart Assoctiation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=68&v=Cw1UeIkQ7bg

How to perform the "hands only" CPR animated video.

FREE online First Aid courses

www.firstaidforfree.com/free-first-aid-course/

Welcome to our free online basic first aid course. Anyone can take this training online and learn more about lifesaving first aid. We provide this first aid training for no charge.

Wilderness and Remote First Aid

https://www.redcross.org/conte... (more)

American Red Cross Wilderness and Remote First Aid in PDF format that you can download.