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WD8DBY

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April 60 Meter Outreach Interop
« on: April 05, 2021, 10:27:40 AM »

MARS operators will conduct sixty meter outreach operations with the amateur radio community from 7-10 April on sixty meters channel one, frequency 5,330.5 KHz at 1200 and 2000 hours local time.  Amateur radio operators are encouraged to take advantage of this interop exercise.  Go to www.dodmars.org to take a WWV/H listener survey.  Survey results are shared with WWV/H and NIST to help document the continued need for these stations.

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RADIOPHONE

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Re: April 60 Meter Outreach Interop
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2021, 11:43:54 AM »

And this is an emergency ?

Weird.
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N8AUC

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Re: April 60 Meter Outreach Interop
« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2021, 07:19:53 PM »

And this is an emergency ?

Weird.

No, it's not an emergency. And it's not weird either.

It's an exercise to promote interoperability, which just might be necessary in the event of a real emergency.
Training, practice, and exercises are how you prepare for being able to respond in the event of a real emergency.
The sincere and fervent hope is that it will never be necessary to actually put it to real use.
But like a lot of things in life, it is better to have and not need, than to need and not have.

Don't even think about invoking the ridiculous and irrelevant stereotype of "ham radio saving the world". That's not how it works, not how it's intended to work, and it never happens that way. Hams are not first responders. Real ARES groups never self-activate, and never self-deploy. They only respond if requested by a served agency with which they have a prior established relationship, such as an Emergency Management Agency. And if you don't get called, that's not a bad thing at all. That's when you sit back, put some popcorn in the microwave, and relax.
 
If you'd like to get some actual insight into the foundations of how this all really works, and the frameworks under which it operates, I'd encourage you to take some of the free, online training courses offered by FEMA. Specifically, I'd recommend IS-100, 200, 700, and 800 for starters. Then if you want to learn a bit more about when, how, and why amateur radio gets involved, take the EC-001 course offered by ARRL. But you have to do it in that order, because those 4 FEMA courses are a prerequisite for just about everything else.


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RADIOPHONE

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Re: April 60 Meter Outreach Interop
« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2021, 08:18:18 PM »

I don't need a class in preparation of this doomsday event, zombie attack, riots, blitz, WW III, etc.

I already know what  FEMAs, MARs, VENUS, BLMs, Time Standards, the military, Space Patrol, Civil Defense, CIA, men in black, and AOC wants HAM to do in the event of "a real emergency".

To "serve the agencies", they want HAMs/AREs/ARRLs/REACTs to stay off of radios, innernets, facebutts, telephones, and cellphones...and most importantly to STAY AT HOME and OUT OF THE WAY.
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Re: April 60 Meter Outreach Interop
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2021, 11:58:54 AM »

I don't need a class in preparation of this doomsday event, zombie attack, riots, blitz, WW III, etc.

I already know what  FEMAs, MARs, VENUS, BLMs, Time Standards, the military, Space Patrol, Civil Defense, CIA, men in black, and AOC wants HAM to do in the event of "a real emergency".

To "serve the agencies", they want HAMs/AREs/ARRLs/REACTs to stay off of radios, innernets, facebutts, telephones, and cellphones...and most importantly to STAY AT HOME and OUT OF THE WAY.

You really are clueless, aren't you?  Or a big troll...
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N8AUC

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Re: April 60 Meter Outreach Interop
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2021, 06:45:34 PM »

I don't need a class in preparation of this doomsday event, zombie attack, riots, blitz, WW III, etc.

I already know what  FEMAs, MARs, VENUS, BLMs, Time Standards, the military, Space Patrol, Civil Defense, CIA, men in black, and AOC wants HAM to do in the event of "a real emergency".

To "serve the agencies", they want HAMs/AREs/ARRLs/REACTs to stay off of radios, innernets, facebutts, telephones, and cellphones...and most importantly to STAY AT HOME and OUT OF THE WAY.

You really are clueless, aren't you?  Or a big troll...

Yep. Clueless pretty much sums it up. And that's being nice about it.
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Re: April 60 Meter Outreach Interop
« Reply #6 on: April 06, 2021, 08:21:59 PM »

I am not clueless. I am in Realville.

Those in La-La Land...by all means polish up your badges and riot helmets, and pack them in your go-go boxes along with the vests, radios, computers, magic e-comm antennas, and candy bars.

The thunderstorm season has arrived and soon the rioters/looters will awaken from their winter hibernation.

Your "activation" is imminent. Have the emergency beacon ready to plug in to the cigarette lighter outlet.

Prepare to Deploy Deploy Deploy.



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Re: April 60 Meter Outreach Interop
« Reply #7 on: April 09, 2021, 05:58:54 AM »

"Those in La-La Land...by all means polish up your badges and riot helmets, and pack them in your go-go boxes along with the vests, radios, computers, magic e-comm antennas, and candy bars."


I can save the world with my Winlink!!


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RADIOPHONE

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Re: April 60 Meter Outreach Interop
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2021, 09:04:20 AM »

Well, the MARS/HAMs emergency e-comm interoperateability  emergency radio command emergency outreach thing was scheduled to conclude yesterday.

Was MARs/HAMs successful valiant effort to interoperate emergency radio command Earth Defense Force ?

Were there any casualties associated with the emergency radio when all else fails emergency command games/manure-vers ?

Are they now assured of being able to interoperate when the zombies float in to town and/or when the nuclear bomb explosions come ?

Why have there been no updates on this important event in world history ?
State secret ? Classified, top secret ?

Has emergency radio emergency command center officially released the 60 meter channels  for normal use yet ?

What's duh scoop ?
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WD8DBY

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Re: April 60 Meter Outreach Interop
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2021, 06:13:54 AM »

Thanks to everyone who participated in this April 60 meter outreach...we will do the outreach again the first week of May.

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VA3FLN

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Re: April 60 Meter Outreach Interop
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2021, 06:35:40 PM »

I am a Canadian Ham who has worked with the local Red Cross ARES group in Toronto and have 60m capabilities via a Chameleon Loop antenna that I really ought to practice with in order to master it. I have also taken a bunch of the FEMA online courses, though it's been several years since I completed some of them.

Would MARS be open to taking Canadian check-ins if I can hear the exercise and get through? I am free at lunchtime and most evenings and suspect that it would be good practice to set up the rig in the yard and check in.
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