District II  provides emergency communications for six of the Pennsylvania counties including, Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe, Northampton and Schuylkill.  

The ARRL District II EmComm group operates in compliance with the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency RACES operational plan, 
and the Eastern Pennsylvania Section ARES Emergency plan  
and the Eastern Pennsylvania Section Digital Communications Guidelines 

-- NEWS UPDATE --
We now have a new UHF repeater available for ARES in this area -- It is located on the Blue Mountain 
above Palmerton, PA with a frequency of 449.375 (-) and a PL of 100.0