Fixed something which has been bothering me for a few years. Every time there's a emergency/disaster, our local amateur radio airwaves go quiet (typically, because local repeaters stop working). So I've taken over the output frequency on the hour (er... more or less on the hour) to provide status updates to anyone who might hear me. Just so people know someone is out there.
(still have phone/Internet around here, so people still can get info... but it's been bugging me for years no one gets on at all to distribute info--not even for practice or to keep everyone fresh).
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Bill VE7WYC
In response to this post@ai6yr Good work Ben. It's weird, all those nets, practicing passing "traffic", then when something actually happens...silence.
@VE7WYC EXACTLY.
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Sean Reynolds
In response to this post@ai6yr my local club makes a point of practicing connecting on the repeater's output frequency periodically. It's often a little tricky, because if people don't have “repeater output - simplex" programmed into their radios, if they just dial it up by VFO it automatically sets it as if it's a repeater, splitting the transmit off to a different frequency.
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