Ready to evacuate?

If a disaster were to occur, would you and your family be prepared to evacuate, meet up at a predetermined location, and have enough supplies to feed everyone for a week or more?

Area residents are invited to attend the free Annual Community Preparedness Fair on Saturday, Oct. 14, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Harkins Theatres parking lot just north of Buffalo Wild Wings in Prescott Valley.

“The Goodwin Fire was a very personal reminder about the need to be prepared as individuals and communities,” said Ryan Judy, coordinator of this year’s event. “This fair brings together many of the agencies that would help coordinate a disaster response in our area.”

The event will also help people to not have to rely so much on government agencies, Judy added.

Participating agencies....more in link

http://m.pvtrib.com/news/2017/oct/11/ready-evacuate/?templates=mobile

General meeting hamradio mesh networks

Location: Rm #2424, Space Research Building
University of Michigan
2455 Hayward St
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Please note the change in location effective from March 2017.

The doors automatically close at 7:00 pm. So please plan to arrive 5-10 minutes early. If you are locked out please give a call on the 146.96 (-ve) repeater frequency.

Maps and Parking info: https://w8rp.org/news/change-in-general-meeting-location-for-march-2017/

The General Membership Meeting will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, September 13th in Room 2424 at the University of Michigan’s Space Research Building.

This month’s presentation topic is “Ham Radio Mesh Networks”. We will talk about ham radio mesh networks specifically, AREDN (Amateur Radio Emergency Data Network). There has been renewed interest in the Club to build a mesh network in the area and we have toyed with this idea a few years back using HSMM-Mesh but never discussed it in detail. HSMM-Mesh is no longer in development and AREDN is being used predominantly all over the world. If you have any experience with ARDEN and mesh networks, in general, your input will be valuable and if you have a device with the firmware loaded please do bring it to the meeting. We will watch a presentation and then discuss further on how to implement if there are enough of us willing to put up the nodes.

More info: https://www.aredn.org

https://w8rp.org/october-2017-general-meeting-ham-radio-mesh-networks/

FCC Approves Google Project Loon for Hurricane-Devastated Puerto Rico

NEWS ANALYSIS: The Federal Communications Commission has approved a license to enable Google's X unit to set up its Project Loon communications system to provide emergency cell service to hurricane-devastated Puerto Rico. 

First, it was the hams. In the terrifying aftermath of Hurricane Maria, the only communications available to residents came from the few ham radio operators who were able to get their equipment running because they had generators to provide power.

Phone service on the island did not exist. The government had some communications, but that was being used for official business including waging Tweet wars with Washington.

For everyone else, to get word out about emergency conditions, you had to walk. The roads were blocked by debris. There was no fuel. When the airport reopened and flights resumed, volunteers began to arrive with their radios and generators. But Puerto Rico is a large island and roads were still impassable and bridges washed out. The ham radio operators provided a vital service, but it was not nearly enough...

More in the link

http://www.eweek.com/networking/fcc-approves-google-project-loon-for-hurricane-devastated-puerto-rico

South Texans amateur radio club

South Texas amateur radio club

http://www.n5crp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017-Hamfest-Flyer-x.pdf

Ham radio enthusiasts plan convention, high-altitude balloon release | News | bgdailynews.com

Amateur radio operators will release a high-altitude balloon Saturday during the sixth annual Vette City Hamfest.

After a previous balloon release of this type, the balloon circled the world six times.

Hamfest,
which runs from 7:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at Sloan Convention
Center, is part convention, part trade show and part flea market. It is
aime...



Ham radio enthusiasts plan convention, high-altitude balloon release | News | bgdailynews.com

Winona Amateur Radio Club to sponsor a licensing course | Briefs | winonadailynews.com

The Winona Amateur Radio Club is
sponsoring an amateur radio licensing course to run from mid-October
2017 to mid-March 2018. The course is followed by a license testing
session in Winona accepted by the Federal Communication Commission.

“Get connected” via ham radio — whether your interest is in emergency communications,



more in the link bellow...





Winona Amateur Radio Club to sponsor a licensing course | Briefs | winonadailynews.com

Queens School's Amateur Radio Club Offers Messaging Lifeline to Puerto Rico - Jackson Heights - New York - DNAinfo

JACKSON HEIGHTS — Inside the tiny amateur radio room inside the
Garden School's second-floor library, students fiddle with dials and
listen for voices being transmitted from around the world.



The school's radio club, which has grown to around 20 members since
launching last year, has competed in contests and learned all about
operating ham radios from inside the 78th Street school.



Now, the extracurricular activity has taken a more urgent mission for students.



The station — known by its call sign, K2GSG — is taking messages
known as "radiograms" to send down to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico,
which has been mostly without power since Hurricane Maria struck the
island.






Anyone can send a note to the club's email address, and students will help...



more in the link bellow...





Queens School's Amateur Radio Club Offers Messaging Lifeline to Puerto Rico - Jackson Heights - New York - DNAinfo