Carmine, K3CWP, and Elaine, K3ERP attended the first day of the annual Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency Conference held in Harrisburg on September 24, 2011.  Subjects covered at the conference included:

• An update on the Auxiliary Communications System program
• Keynote address by Glenn Cannon, PEMA Director
• Report on the South Central Task Force Wide Vigilance Exercise held in 2010
• Individual Group Briefings, including a briefing by Carmine, K3CWP, on the progress of ACS organizing and equipment installation in Centre County
• Developing an ACS/EmComm Annex to an Emergency Operations Plan
• Integration of ACS into an Incident Communication Center

All the sessions presented valuable information and were enhanced by the ability to work and talk with other amateur radio operators involved in Emergency Preparedness.