Friday, February 27, 2015

Do you have an Emergency Radio Communications Plan.

If you don't have comm you don't have anything.

This will enhance communications between groups by using HF single sideband ground wave propagation to add security and functionality to your comm plan.



Here is an excellent video from You Tube user MeOnTech.  He concealed a 2 meter band j-pole antenna on his balcony in a flower pot. Way to go!



This video will give you an idea of what the bands will be like in an actual emergency.
Everyone will want to talk at the same time, and it will take some practice to make any real communications traffic out of what we call a pile up.  This operator has a unique situation in that every time he gets on the air he has to deal with a pile up. But this is what it will be like when we have  a  failure of civility in our country.



To try to ease the pain in a real emergency we have band plans that will help to get the emergency traffic to the most people.

Oathkeepers band plan:
http://www.lincolncountywatch.org/emergencycommplan.pdf

AmRRon band plan:
This one used to be free but their costs are going up like everyone else's so they now charge $6 for a digital version. It's worth the money because there is much information that most of us have not thought about in planning for emergency communications.

http://www.amrron.com/comms-s-o-i/

Click this link for a nice ham radio bands chart:

http://www.amrron.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Hambands_color.pdf