[600MRG] A better explanation of the need for emcomm fallbackmodes.

[Lee Mushel]

Gentlemen,

Nine Eleven changed the lives of all of us but the problem is that so few 
seem to know "in what way."   Things are not at all what they used to 
be---even five years ago.   I would suggest that everyone find a local 
person who is an Incident Command System "COML" (communications leader) 
and/or "COMT" "communications technician" and ask him to speak at a club or 
organization meeting.   Classes are infrequently given for the Auxiliary 
Communicator people and that is the one that ties ham radio to the ICS. 
Homeland Security has done a lot of work setting up a system to provide 
great emergency communications systems but very few people seem to know 
anything about it and the ICS 100 and 700 classes are really nothing but a 
basic start.

My XYL frequently hears me mumbling to myself about the state of emergency 
communications today and has commented to me that if I'm right about even a 
tiny bit of this we are no where near ready to handle a Katrina-like crisis. 
I think she's right.  There is much learning to be done.

73

Lee   K9WRU
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <sbjohnston at aol.com>
To: <600mrg at w7ekb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2014 5:55 PM
Subject: Re: [600MRG] A better explanation of the need for emcomm 
fallbackmodes.


> Glen wrote:
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>>The problem with CW is that the majority of amateur radio
>>operators these days can't copy the emissions!
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> There is a surprising amount of CW activity on the HF bands.  But I doubt 
> that the percentage of operators who know CW makes much difference in the 
> case of 630 meters...the bigger challenge that narrows the field of 
> possible operators is the difficulty of building an effective station.
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> Steve WD8DAS
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