This is a great idea, to have a place where amateurs can go to lookup the frequencies that people are going to be communicating on during local emergencies. I know there's the repeater, but what about people using cheap chinese handheld radios. I get they're annoying because they transmit noise all over the band, and they usually cause interference with most wireless devices, kind of like EMPing everything around them during transmit, but to be fair, what can one expect for $40 delivered.
Shouldn't we be doing more to try to get people interested in becoming radio hams and hooking them long enough for them to save up to buy a decent icom or a used radio which behaves?
I'm super interested in the hobby because as a kid, I enjoyed sitting around at night, slowing exploring the AM band instead of sleeping. I'd hear radio dramas, baseball games, weird noises, music and people speaking. I wondered why the radio station would fade in and out, almost like a wave on the shore. I understand now that the radio signal does indeed act like a wave. That the ionosphere rings like a bell when you resonate it just right and sometimes you'll get propagation far beyond what should be possible given the output wattage.
Getting back to the point though, given the recent actions of the USA, retaliation could come in the form of long range missiles, and our cities might eventually come under attack. There used to be a biological and radiological plan to protect the people should the SHTF, but my understanding is that it's now up to each individual to prepare and protect themselves, should something ever happen. Looking at the pandemic, the government is really not ready to handle a serious situation should one occur. We the people then should start our own plan, to protect our homes and families.
We need to create a framework that most families can do, things like having a few extra dry goods, extra toilet paper, water source that is stabilized and doesn't rely on the city to pump it. We should have things like window coverings, a way to seal the window so that it becomes as airtight as it can. A few n95 masks and have those who can afford it purchase extras to hand out to those who can't. If we need to wear masks, it makes more sense to have them available at the places where they should be worn, and it also makes sense to have masks that filter the incoming air, so not just to protect people from each other, but the people themselves. There should be a stockhold of basic things that people need to survive which can be handed out at a place where most people can get to, like the mall or near grocery stores. Multiple stores would make more sense.
Anyway, just saying that I'm down to start a plan to contact all the people of North Bay and see if they'd like to invest time or resources into a project like this.
Sorry for resurrecting a dead topic
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This is a great idea, to have a place where amateurs can go to lookup the frequencies that people are going to be communicating on during local emergencies. I know there's the repeater, but what about people using cheap chinese handheld radios. I get they're annoying because they transmit noise all over the band, and they usually cause interference with most wireless devices, kind of like EMPing everything around them during transmit, but to be fair, what can one expect for $40 delivered.
Shouldn't we be doing more to try to get people interested in becoming radio hams and hooking them long enough for them to save up to buy a decent icom or a used radio which behaves?
I'm super interested in the hobby because as a kid, I enjoyed sitting around at night, slowing exploring the AM band instead of sleeping. I'd hear radio dramas, baseball games, weird noises, music and people speaking. I wondered why the radio station would fade in and out, almost like a wave on the shore. I understand now that the radio signal does indeed act like a wave. That the ionosphere rings like a bell when you resonate it just right and sometimes you'll get propagation far beyond what should be possible given the output wattage.
Getting back to the point though, given the recent actions of the USA, retaliation could come in the form of long range missiles, and our cities might eventually come under attack. There used to be a biological and radiological plan to protect the people should the SHTF, but my understanding is that it's now up to each individual to prepare and protect themselves, should something ever happen. Looking at the pandemic, the government is really not ready to handle a serious situation should one occur. We the people then should start our own plan, to protect our homes and families.
We need to create a framework that most families can do, things like having a few extra dry goods, extra toilet paper, water source that is stabilized and doesn't rely on the city to pump it. We should have things like window coverings, a way to seal the window so that it becomes as airtight as it can. A few n95 masks and have those who can afford it purchase extras to hand out to those who can't. If we need to wear masks, it makes more sense to have them available at the places where they should be worn, and it also makes sense to have masks that filter the incoming air, so not just to protect people from each other, but the people themselves. There should be a stockhold of basic things that people need to survive which can be handed out at a place where most people can get to, like the mall or near grocery stores. Multiple stores would make more sense.
Anyway, just saying that I'm down to start a plan to contact all the people of North Bay and see if they'd like to invest time or resources into a project like this.