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State OEM is on HF and that only because the state bought the equipment after the big storms of 2007 and gave it to us. That is the problem with HAMS today - many of them do not have the proper equipment - especially the Technician Class License Holder.. They believe that the repeaters are going to work and that everything is going to be provided for them. The one local group called me on the phone and said - Hey, the county Xpeter is down, can you turn your friends repeater on so we can use it? My answer was - when I said we needed help to repair the repeater, everyone told me - we have the county repeater, we don't need yours. Then when the county tower went down in the storm - all of a sudden you need me. The problem was - I was 120 road miles away and the repeater was still broke. The locals up there - doesn't have any of their own radio equipment, hence they run down to the EOC where the county gave them some repurposed hand held radios... One guy has a HF radio, but the only thing he does on it is MARS - which technicially isn't a part of ARES or Amateur Radio. MARS is Military radio... |
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Hash: SHA1 In Klystron writes: I haven't heard any ARES activity related to the hurricane. Were there any HF nets? Is there any activity coming out of the areas that are still without power? Does ARES still exist, other than on paper? -- Klystron Item of interest about this thread just posted to QRZ: /////////////////////////////////////////// HamRadioNow: Hurricane Sandy Follow-Up Posted: 07 Nov 2012 07:37 AM PST http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php...p&goto=newpost HAMRADIONOW.tv Episode 31: Hurricane Sandy Follow-Up Hurricane Sandy is gone. What did Ham Radio do? What did we learn? In this episode, Southern New Jersey ARRL SEC John Zaruba K2ZA returns, and is joined by ARRL Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Corey KI1U to discuss how it went, and what we learned to do even better next time. Watch this episode at our web site, www.HamRadioNow.tv. to support these programs, visit HAMRADIONOW.tv and 'click the piggy bank' /////////////////////////////////////////// (73, Paul, K3FU) - -- Paul W. Schleck http://www.novia.net/~pschleck/ Finger for PGP Public Key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlCb/2oACgkQ6Pj0az779o4HrwCfQ33cCgbmgsEbBpPcNSq32h7J OlIAniSPoKmm6W4rQ5E0PL1HXRG8JNq9 =Gi8C -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 12:51:12 EST, Channel Jumper
wrote: [Selected excerpts] If you can operate from at home - on your own station, without doing anything or making any effort - this is the point I was trying to make when I said all they want to do is talk on the radio... TALK - not travel, not spend their own money, no do anything to help. In an emergency - SIMPLEX is the prefered mode of communications. YOU MUST EXPECT THAT WHEN YOU GET THERE, THERE WILL NOT BE ANYTHING THERE FOR YOU TO USE. There's all kinds of "deployment". I and folks like me cannot be deployed "to the boonies" because of mobility or other problems and we serve as well by manning pre-equipped command centers where the only thing we need to have when we get there are our training and knowledge and dedication. In my ECC at a major medical center we do not accept "walk-ins" because of legal and training problems. We cannot do "on the fly" training of people to handle medical and hospital administrative communications. If you look historically - the worlds coffee supply was bought up by the USA during WW II and the worlds TEA supply was bought up by the British... And at the present time, Coca Cola is the biggest purchaser of tea worldwide - where do you think all that caffeine in Coke comes from? I could go on and on.... And a close friend of mine (an Extra Class ham) was one of the medical examiners handling the ID of the victims of the Twin Towers disasters. They were required to sign NDAs so there are lots of unpublished stories from that disaster. Things happen. 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane Member, Washington County, OR Emergency Communications Team for ARES/RACES and HEARTNET Station Co-manager - W7PSV / K7PSV Providence St. Vincent Medical Center Disaster Communication Team |
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Hash: SHA1 In Paul W. Schleck " writes: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In Klystron writes: I haven't heard any ARES activity related to the hurricane. Were there any HF nets? Is there any activity coming out of the areas that are still without power? Does ARES still exist, other than on paper? -- Klystron Item of interest about this thread just posted to QRZ: /////////////////////////////////////////// HamRadioNow: Hurricane Sandy Follow-Up Posted: 07 Nov 2012 07:37 AM PST http://forums.qrz.com/showthread.php...p&goto=newpost [...] Also a detailed write-up, including a lessons-learned "hotwash," about ARES participation in emergency management for Hurricane Sandy was just posted in this month's edition of the ARRL ARES E-Letter, available from the web: http://www.arrl.org/ares-el?issue=2012-11-21 and just posted to rec.radio.info with Subject: The ARES E-Letter for November 21, 2012 and Message-ID: (73, Paul, K3FU) - -- Paul W. Schleck http://www.novia.net/~pschleck/ Finger for PGP Public Key -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAlCtEiQACgkQ6Pj0az779o7ougCdEDZrlVf9a+ Im1PnB0oa5hP/W cqMAn3K6suh2G+6ua4ZXmCcs1eQI4BIl =cqo2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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