It is the policy of Island Tower Emergency Radio Communications, in order to protect lives and property, and in cooperation and coordination with other international-national-regional-statewide and local neighborhoods, communities, within governmental agencies to carry out emergency preparedness, radio communication planning, training exercises and mitigation activities, for intent to respond to natural, man-made and disasters emergencies, including participating radio communication coordination activities for recovery efforts.

Island Tower Emergency Radio Communications intent is to participate in and provide coordinated operation between government emergency management agencies and officials, including RACES/Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service Organizations during times when there are extraordinary threats to the safety of life and/or property.

Maximum benefits of active and reactive emergency radio communications between all emergency organizations through planning and training exercise which identifies the organizations, agencies, and active radio operators having capacity to reactive radio communications with a definitive role.

Island Tower Emergency Radio Communications Operators enables agencies and EMS organizations to rapidly access onair radio reactive operators having emergency expertise and professional responsibilities for any international-national-regional-statewide and local community emergency radio communications response.

Field Day stresses emergency axillary radio preparedness for entire Island Tower Radio Emergency Operators to get involved with International, national regional, statewide and local emergency management services by assembling a remote emergency radio operators station in: field, shelters, urban setting, recreational area, specialized vehicles such as automobiles, PV Railcars, aircraft or office planned training exercises.

Island Tower Emergency Axillary Radio Field Day is a working relations with public safety emergency management services used to attract significant publicity for public emergency management services awareness, leadership organizations and emergency axillary radio operators, to simultaneously demonstrate technologies including single sideband voice, Morse code, digital modes, such as RTTY, PSK31, and Winlink, among others communication via antenna and satellite connectivity.

Island Tower is committed to Comprehensive Training Goals to minimizing the impact of disasters on our communities, property, economy and environment. Comprehensive Training and Exercise Programs are essential to ensure that first responders, emergency managers, government leaders, non-governmental partners, private citizens and emergency radio communications operators have the knowledge, skills and abilities needed to perform key tasks when a disaster strikes.

Regional Emergencies such as an earthquake, our communications systems—cell phones, land lines, and Internet, could or are likely will fail. Communications and power could be out for 10 days or more, as communities and first responders survey for casualties and damage, communicating with members of our neighborhood disaster response team is essential.

The Gulf of Mexico Storm "Katrina" and other disasters taught the value of Amateur/Ham Emergency Radio Communications. President Bush needed to get a message to Mayor Nagin in New Orleans. Amateur Radio was the only means of communications to get the message through.

Amateur/Ham Emergency Radio Communications has been saving lives and aiding federal, state and local governments for 100 years.

Opportunity to test two way communications between Amateurs Radio Station Operators, with Emergency Radio Systems as authorized in 47 CFR 97.111, provides traditional cross band SSB voice, Morse Code, practice using legacy interoperability waveforms. Including an opportunity for Emergency Radio Communication Station Operators to utilize more modern communications modes such as MIL-STD Serial PSK and Automatic Link Establishment/ALE.