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Ham Radio Included in Official Emergency Preparations:
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by W6EM on February 3, 2010
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Glad to see in the picture that the "youngster" ARES members are ambulatory in the ambulance.
Now, if they'd just used some of the money they used to repaint the ambulance to remove and cap over the hideous flashing sidelights. If for nothing else, to conserve energy to power the radios.
The local LEO who was quoted is exactly right. When the LE trunked junk fails and they can't communicate just when they need to the most, amateur radio can thankfully use high power simplex to save the day.
Motorola and M/A Comm should be coughing up grant money for more crutches like the rehabed ambulance in areas where they've convinced the local LEOs to move into into trunked junk.
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by KB1THM on February 3, 2010
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Im not so sure that the reporter who wrote this really understood ham radio.
This doesn't make sense: "If cell phone towers and Internet servers were knocked out of commission, it would fall to ham radios and their low-frequency transmissions to reach repeaters across the world."
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RE: Ham Radio Included in Official Emergency Preparations:
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by W6EM on February 3, 2010
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Oh, come on. To him it made perfect sense. First, the normal cells, including LE trunked junk ones, get knocked out. And, since TV is on UHF, even our two meter band is lowly frequency stuff.
Now, grant you, the repeater bit is a tad far fetched, unless he meant 10 FM......
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