Kaufman County Amateur Radio Emergency Service, Inc.

Since we are an Amateur Radio Emergency Service program, we are always looking for donations of radio equipment. There are various types of equipment that we are looking for and that we can utilize. If you have some old equipment that you no longer need or want, please consider donating them to use for our use, while receiving a tax deduction at the same time. We will accept almost all types of radio equipment and if we are unable to use it, we will pass it along to someone that can.

Please use our donation submission form to provide us with information regarding the equipment that you wish to donate. This will allow us to determine if we will be able use it or will be able to pass it along to someone else. It also gives us the information that we need to setup a time to receive this gift from you, that is workable for you and our donation team.

There are all kinds of radio equipment that can be utilized for emergency communications and we have provided a list of items that we need the most and items that we will accept . If you have something that might fit into one of the below mentioned groups, please contact us and we will let you know for sure.

The following is a generic list of items that we are in need of:

• HT Radios - Handy Talkie (walkie talkie) radios that operate on various amateur radio bands or on commercial radio frequencies, such as police department radios.
• Mobile Units - similar to the one pictured above, that operate on amateur radio bands or commercial bands.
• Base stations - to be used and placed in fixed locations, operating on amateur radio bands or commercial bands.
• FRS (Family Radio Service) Radios - to be used by local organizations that we assist, to help them with small need local radio coverage. Any type of equipment.
• GMRS (General Radio Mobile Service) Radios - to be used by local organizations that we assist. Any type of equipment.
• D-Star Amateur Radio equipment.
• Voice Pageers - like those used by your local fire department, ie. Minitor V, Apollo VP100, Swissphone,