Subj : OK Back to HAM RADIO Talk To : Warlord From : Spaceman Spiff Date : Thu Jul 07 2005 08:49 pm Re: OK Back to HAM RADIO Talk By: Warlord to Spaceman Spiff on Fri Jul 01 2005 12:34 am > Re: OK Back to HAM RADIO Talk > By: Spaceman Spiff to Warlord on Thu Jun 30 2005 09:34 pm > > OK Mark, I will be talking to TK soon.... He was just here for a day > in February and operated from my house briefly. I have been busy doing some > changes here at the house and working one day a week less this past year. > I will be getting on here every night for the next month atleast. I havent > done much with Ham Radio this year.... You know that HF is not all that grea > lately, right? So what. I am packing up the 756 PRO II, the 746 PRO and the > 706 MKIIG next Tuesday. That will leave me with a 10-watt Icom 703 (5-watts > with the 9.6 volt NiMi battery sticks) and 2 antennas. A Butternut HF-2V for > 40 and 80 meters, a Cushcraft R-6000 for 10 thru 20 meters ( No 30-meters). > So that will be it for me here for maybe a year or so. My 2M, 220 and 440 is > handled by my handheld Yaesu FT-7. I can be found on 7040 Khz, 18.157.5 Khz > and 14.060 Khz. Once in a while 7110 Khz and 3710 Khz. Ok Mark, take care. > > I'll send you an e-mail soon enough. sk .. DE KA6HGT KN > Sounds good. I tried calling the last number I had for you and got a woman answering who had no clue who you were. That was a little while ago. My number is the same. I get on here every few days. I just got back from a HAM radio meeting, we are setting up a new EOC in one of our local municipalities and had a great presentation about work the local Amateur Communinty has been doing with Emergency Communications in our county working with both the County EOC and the Red Cross. We have had more than our share floods over the last few years. We are getting better organized, and our options for setting up communications lines are very flexible. We had a station at the northern end of the county along the river at the bottem of a cliff, that EOC could not communicate directly with the lower part of the county so traffic relayed through a repeater across the river in the next state (NJ) and back to the lower end of the county. What is interesting is the Red Cross in that area is a seperate entity from the Red Cross in the lower area and they really had no line of communications directly between them, so the lower end was not aware of conditions in the upper end. In steps HAM radio helping to coordinate communication having operators at all shelters and giving updates on Shelter capacities and area conditions. In the past some municipalities and police departments were hesitant to take advantage of the HAM resources they had. Today they are realizing it is a good resource and since Homeland security has come about they are realizing were are a valid back up system when __it hits the fan. And today we just got news of the bombings in London, reminding me of the 911 which up in New York, Washinton and PA, the subjects came up in our meeting. It just opens everyones eyes to the importance of being prepared. I know it may not seem like a big thing, but in an emergency when all communications are down, it is nice to have some system of coordinated communications by people who have practiced for these scenarios. Well, I didn't mean to go off on a tangent, I just got back from the meeting and it is going through my mind. TTYL 73 Spiff Out .