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Ponce
18th February 2011, 09:54 PM
Register your radio and your guns and you will loose both of them when the time comes.
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UT - Draper officials want to add HAM radio operators to emergency plan.

These days, where cell phone coverage stretches across the globe, it's hard to imaging not reaching for your phone in an emergency. But if a disaster strikes, cell phone coverage might be hampered or even out completely. Draper City leaders realize that if something like that happens they will need to be ready for it, and that's where HAM amateur radio comes in.

"It is critical to have communications during an emergency, and amateur radio will be necessary to the success of that communication," said Draper Police Department Officer Eric Braegger, who works with the emergency preparedness committee.

He said at one time they had more than 50 residents who had amateur radio licenses and would check in with the city monthly. Since that time, it's dwindled down to less than five. Braegger wants to get those numbers back up again and make them a part of the city's emergency plan.

http://knucklz.com/2011/02/18/ut---draper-officials-want-to-add-ham-radio-operators-to-emergency-plan.aspx

Glass
19th February 2011, 03:39 AM
So they need to run a net. Regular time when HAMS can make check ins/call backs, comments, hear news and so on. Costs nothing and they'll (HAMs) run it themselves. Just throw them a bone now and then and they will always be at the ready, on the case.

Good idea though. Hooked into the main information streams of the system during bad times could be handy from a survival angle.

Ponce
19th February 2011, 09:01 AM
Do you really think that Uncle Sugar, with all the modern equipment that they have, will really need the help from ham radio operators?..........if anything the ham operators will be the one that will help the general public and not the governmnet..........again, hide your guns and sw radios.

Ponce
19th February 2011, 10:20 AM
Palani? WTSHTF who the hell will care about a licence?.............not me.......I am looking for one that I can buy without a licence.............better to know and live, than not and die.