The Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) is a public service provided by reserve (volunteer) emergency communications personnel who are certified by a government Emergency Management Agency (EMA) to perform backup communications on amateur radio frequencies. This mailing list is for members of RACES units and other amateur radio emergency communications organizations. Appropriate discussion topics include radio technology, activation and deployment procedures, training, and publicizing RACES capabilities to agencies and to the public. When applying for membership to this mailing list, you must provide your name, amateur radio call sign, and RACES affiliation or involvement in emergency communications. Messages that are considered by the list owner as inappropriate, belligerent, obscene, profane, blatantly commercial, and spamming-oriented are not allowed, and may result in permanent banning of the originator.