HI Dave,

On Thu 2038-Jul-01 07:49, Dave Drum (1:261/1381) wrote to Richard Webb:

 RW> "Community emergency response team."
 RW> A damned good program, when taught correctly.  Teaching it
 RW> correctly is hands on, not a bunch of book learned rote
 RW> memorization crap, but hands on, then practice.

DD> Thanks. Sort of like the Civil Defense volunteers that they had (and
DD> I was one of) before and after I was in the Navy. Back when
DD> according to Tail-gunner Joe there was a Commie in every pot and two
DD> under every bed. And when we regularly did the "duck &
cover" drills
DD> in the schools. I was one of the operators of the commo net using 2
DD> metre Gosset voice rigs.
 YEp, can see the similarities.  USed to have quite a
program over at Burlington Iowa for civil defense, we had an explorer troop
of young hams, all sorts of stuff.
Cert really goes into some nuts and bolts for average folks, how to assess
what's needed, get it done (if you can safely) otherwise notify.  IT's a
program that's all about getting
folks to help themselves, under the assumption that after
the tornado/earthquake/hurricane, etc. chances are that the
responders aren't gonna make it to your street for 24 to 48. Everything
from fire suppression to how to move a trapped
body to how to use readily available two-way radio equipment to communicate
among yourselves.


DD> I let my licence lapse some years ago. Used to work 80 metres and
DD> some 40 metres as W9CHL ... back in the day. My antenna was
DD> half-wave for 80 and full wave for 40 metres.

SOunds like that would work well.  I've got a hexbeam for 20 meters that
needs to move from the tower to a shorter mast,
and a 75 meter dipole.

DD> Hmmmmm ... I may look into building something that will broadcast to
DD> the amplifiers in the rolling speaker lab ... on a 1 kc tone at
DD> about a full KW or more. That ought to pierce their eardrums and
DD> distort the hell out of their "music".

Yep, 21 mhz works well for that.  I used to just get on 15
meters when I lived in NEw ORleans and they'd be listening
to their hip hop in the vacant lot and call "cq cq cq dx!"


Regards,
           Richard
... 10% of everything isn't crap, watch closely or you'll miss it!
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+