Tag: emcomm
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Winter Field Day is coming
… not this weekend, not the next one, the one after that … January 25th and 26th. 1600 UTC to 21:59 UTC the next day. I imagine I’ll do as before; treat it as an exercise: just throw my packs (as they stand) into the car. Set up at Wildcat Mountain State Park? Over half…
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A tale of resiliency and recovery from Helene
Thomas Witherspoon (K4SWL) who blogs at https://qrper.com/ lives in the Swannanoa area of North Carolina which was hit hard by Hurricane Helene late last month. His series of posts from there is well worth reading and are collected at this link: Helene Aftermath
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The “pink card” :
or, always be prepared for emergency communication. Reading a post by K4SWL about his experiences during (and after) Hurricane Helene got me thinking about ham radio’s more serious side: being the when-all-else-fails backup mode for communications when the infrastructure goes away. I could go on at some length about all the different ways that we…