Whatcom County Sheriff Office Auxiliary Communications Service (WCACS)
Welcome to the website of WCACS – the Whatcom County Auxiliary Communications Service a volunteer service of amateur radio operators serving the Whatcom County Sheriff Office Department of Emergency Management and Whatcom County Sheriff Office Search and Rescue. Officially, we are Whatcom Country Sheriff Office Auxiliary Communications Service (WCSO-ACS), but go by WCACS because it’s less of a mouthful.
WCACS is an ARES group (Amateur Radio Emergency Service) providing emergency communications for the people of Whatcom County. Many of our members are also members of Whatcom Emergency Communications Group (WECG) and a merger is currently under consideration.
WCACS was founded sometime before 2009. We hope to have more history soon. There are two call signs associated with WCACS: WC7HQ operating from the radio room of Whatcom Unified Emergency Coordination Center (WUECC) also known as the Whatcom Unified Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The other call sign is WC7SO which is the Sheriff Office communications van. This website was set-up for coordinating and sharing emergency communication training, exercises, and information. The county Department of Emergency Management also has a website set-up for WCACS. We will hopefully have these two websites sychronized with each other soon. In the meantime, click the image below to be directed to the Whatcom County website.
Please direct comments, questions, or content ideas to the current volunteer website manager: John Hatten, 360-671-7012 (text is best, or call, or voicemail).