RGV AuxComm helps communications-minded volunteers train, coordinate, and support public-service and emergency-management partners across the Rio Grande Valley.
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Regional Mission
One Valley. One Communications Mission.
The Rio Grande Valley works best when its cities, agencies, volunteers, and communications resources work together. Emergencies do not stop at city limits, county lines, club boundaries, or repeater coverage maps.
RGV AuxComm was formed to encourage disciplined, cooperative, region-wide amateur radio support for emergency management and public-service partners. The goal is not to replace clubs, repeaters, or local teams. The goal is to connect them into a professional, reliable regional support capability when the Valley needs it.
Service Path
Who Can Join RGV AuxComm?
RGV AuxComm is built around licensed amateur radio operators, while also welcoming licensed GMRS operators, Meshtastic, MeshCore, CERT, and other communications-minded volunteers who wish to train, learn, and contribute to the mission.
Why It Matters
Regional AuxComm Makes Local Operators More Useful
Regional Impact
Emergencies Cross Boundaries
Weather, flooding, outages, sheltering, evacuations, and communications failures can affect multiple cities and counties at once.
Operator Teamwork
Operators Need to Work Together
Radio operators are most useful when they train together, understand common procedures, and can support each other without territorial conflict.
Partner Trust
Served Partners Need Reliability
Emergency-management and public-service partners need calm, disciplined, coordinated communicators, not fragmented groups competing for control.
Club Support
Clubs Remain Important
RGV AuxComm does not replace amateur radio clubs. Clubs remain the foundation. AuxComm provides a regional coordination layer for public-service readiness.
Regional Operating Principles
- Serve the mission before the organization.
- Support served partners without self-deploying.
- Respect all clubs, repeaters, teams, and operators.
- Share information clearly and accurately.
- Train together before emergencies happen.
- Avoid politics, ego, territorialism, and unnecessary conflict.
- Build trust across the whole Rio Grande Valley.
Teamwork Across the Valley
Amateur radio is strongest when operators cooperate. RGV AuxComm recognizes that isolated groups, personality conflicts, and territorial thinking can weaken emergency communications readiness. The Valley needs a broader approach: operators from different clubs, systems, cities, and backgrounds working from a common standard of professionalism, discipline, and mutual respect.
Served Partners
For Emergency Management and Public-Service Partners
RGV AuxComm is designed to provide a single, professional point of coordination for trained amateur radio auxiliary communications support in the Rio Grande Valley. The team emphasizes no self-deployment, clear radio procedure, written message handling, local relationship-building, and respect for agency direction.
Readiness NetWeekly Net / Readiness
RGV AuxComm holds a net every Thursday at 7:30 PM local time on the Rio Link repeater system, 145.230 MHz, for member check-ins, equipment checks, readiness updates, and communications practice.
Capability
Deployable Assets
How We Operate
- ICS-aligned communications support.
- Calm, disciplined, mission-focused operations.
- Service-first mindset with strong public-facing professionalism.
- Deployable field and home-station operators.
- Voice and digital capability, including Winlink and VARA.
- Support for EOCs, shelters, public-service events, field operations, and readiness activities.
- Teamwork, accountability, and communication discipline.
Team Core Values
Technical skill, licensing, and equipment are not enough. The real standard is whether an operator can work calmly under direction, support without trying to control, preserve partner trust, communicate clearly, and remain useful during deployment.
RGV AuxComm Team Enrollment
Use this form to register callsign, license class, contact information, capability, training, deployment status, and equipment.
Resources
Additional Training & Resources
Training
Communications Tools
Agency Coordination
Need auxiliary communications support?
Emergency management, public safety, nonprofit, sheltering, event, and community partners can use RGV AuxComm as a regional point of contact for disciplined auxiliary communications support, planning, training, exercises, and public-service events.
Add your agency or organization contact so RGV AuxComm can share readiness updates and coordinate support when requested.
Ready to train, learn, and help?
Join RGV AuxComm and become part of a regional communications-readiness effort built on teamwork, discipline, and service.
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