The Nash County Amateur Radio Emergency Service is a volunteer organization which serves the citizens of Nash County & Rocky Mount, North Carolina by providing volunteer Amateur Radio communication services to federal, state, county, and local government agencies, as well as to non-profit organizations. The primary activity of the Nash County ARES is to provide emergency communications during disasters such as fires, floods, tornadoes, and hurricanes, when other means of communications are not available or can be knocked out.

The Nash County ARES staffs an amateur radio station, NA4SH, in the Nash County EOC and in the City of Rocky Mount EOC, W4RMT. In addition, the group installs and maintains the equipment and antennas for HF and VHF communications. Every Tuesday evening at 8:30 PM, there is a net that meets on the 146.805 mHz. W4DCG repeater and other local repeaters on 220 and 440 mHz. in the Rocky Mount and Nash County area.

Nash County Emergency Coordinator Fred Winner, KE4LXW ke4lxw@tarriverarc.com