The Marion County Emergency Radio Team Consists of Amateur Radio operators who voluntarily assist the Sheriff's Office of Emergency Management with communications when other methods have failed. To view a slide show of some of our activities, click on the photos panel on the left of this page. We can be contacted at: 352-369-8194 or by E-mail at: kg4nxo@marionso.com
Three files have been added to the files section. These files give examples of informal and formal message handling scripts:
MessageHandling_Informal ...
The next MERT training session will be held at 9 AM Saturday, April 20th at the EOC. Everyone should attend. Details about what it will cover will be r...
A PDF file with instructions on how to fill out an ICS-213 form and handle messages using it is now on-line in the files section. Everyone should downl...
The Marion County Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) is now on-line and available for download in the "files" section. The file only contai...
The MERT Operations Manual is now available for downloading in the files section. If you need a copy, you can download it from there. On the home page,...
he Marion Emergency Radio Team (MERT) is looking for new members. MERT is a volunteer group that works with the Marion County Office of Emergency Manag...