Make sure to visit the American Radio Relay League website for more information – www.arrl.org . Getting into Amateur Radio is easier now than ever before. ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio. The ARRL is a member-society and International Secretariat of the International Amateur Radio Union. —————————————————————————– Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) – www.arrl.org National Traffic System (NTS) – www.arrl.org National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (National VOAD) – www.nvoad.org
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SOME INTERESTING EMERGENCY RADIO SERVICE LINKS CERT – Community Emergency Response Teams www.citizencorps.gov WIKI – Community Emergency Response Teams en.wikipedia.org WIKI – Amateur Radio en.wikipedia.org ARES – Amateur Radio Emergency Services www.ares.org ARRL – ARES www.arrl.org WIKI – ARES en.wikipedia.org RACES – Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service www.usraces.org WIKI – RACES www.usraces.org
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As alway’s David, great job. We don’t have a CERT organization here in North Eastern Kentucky, but we do have ARES. I had the pleasure of working a simulated emergency drill with the local ARES group a few weeks ago. It was a lot of fun and great practice to work out the bugs of our portable gear.
73,
KJ4ZFQ
Great vid Doc, I just got home from the Jacksonville, FL Skywarn monthly meeting
Great work! We have a weekly net on our state linked UHF repeater system here in Tennessee.
Cool.. we have a weekly ARES net here on Wed Night, we also run an HF training net on 10 meters 28.333.00 so we can all test our HF gear and the techs can get a feel of what operating HF is like. Even though its local we do get check ins from all over from time to time. If you are free on Wed nights around 7:45ish check in on HF and look for a ham call that ends in UTC, thats me
@Iridium242 – I will listen in, and as soon as I upgrade, I will also check in. Thank for watching!
73!
KF7ETX
@FlatwoodsBushcraft – Thank you for your service to your community by participating in you local ARES group.
73!
KF7ETX
@hinckleypoland – Thank you sir! BTW, I may get a chance to shake your hand this summer . . . NAU 😉
@K4PAD - Thank you sir! BTW, I enjoyed your recent Cub Scout outing. Thanks for your service working with Scouting!
73!
KF7ETX
@jdailey19811 – Thanks!
73!
KF7ETX
Awesome mic cover! Thanks for your work with CERT (Hillsboro)
Cool!
sounds like a great group
Nice video sir! I’m currently studying fro my Ham exam (nice rhyme by the way) in large part because of your vids.
2 questions though (if you don’t mind).
1. You say you are a new ham, I’m curious as to how long you’ve been a Ham (you seem to really know what you are doing)?
2. What class of license do you have (just curious)?
@USNERDOC Thanks Dave – Working with the scouts put things in perspective.. Got to make sure the leader of the future learn the skills of the past, makes them suited to learn and lead..
Thanks for taking us along. 73s and Aloha, J.
@hinckleypoland VERY COOL!! Just keep me posted. We could even arrange a little off-roading in Sedona if your interested as well. ;o)
@hinckleypoland – Interested? Are you kidding! 😉 I do believe I will have a bit of free time on my own so will keep you posted. Be safe!
Got to use someones 857d last field day and decided that’s going to be the first HF rig when the time comes. Good vid on a net checkin’. Sounds like their repeater runs a little hot.
Doc,
What do you think of the 857? Im thinking about buying one myslef. Thanks Evan KC2USH
Doc,
What do you think of the 857? Im thinking about buying one myslef. Thanks Evan KC2USH 73s
@KC2USH - I love it . . . very solid rig.
John was an excellent station host, good work! And thank you, Doc, for putting this video up. I learned a lot in addition to the knowledge of this website, for example the speed at which CW operators might send their messages (I am interested because I’m trying to learn utilizing Koch’s Method, and it’s important to get the desired speed). I also learned that repeaters have a “burn-out” time, which you might know if you’re active in amateur radio, but I’m not yet. Will be when I can!
I think you should do a vid on HR 607 the radio frequency grab.
If the repeater is overheating it is not setup properly, any emergency communication repeater should have 100 percent duty cycle
This vid is so cool. I am starting a technical cert class on Sat July 9
Walter Cronkite will be missed.
I bet his call is not available for vanity grabs.
I used to have a list of celeb calls.
This vid may get some hams more involved with civic programs with the ARRL.
I sent a NTS radiogram last night after 16+ years of not doing so. I also enjoyed skywarn and mock disaster drills with the RACES folks back in the 90s. There’s still use for ham radio outside of contesting and bragging. And many modes to play around with since the rtty and slow scan tv back in the old days. GET INVOLVED!