Eric: Speaking as a former professional Emergency Management Coordinator you are asking to be able to do something that will not endear you to neither the County, State, or Federal Agencies.
Having persons uninformed with net operations is totally disruptive to the point, at times, that all traffic stops. Not only will you incur the wrath of these agencies you well might incur the wrath of the FCC. Just because there is an emergency does not give you Carte Blanc to use radio equipment as ones private forum. There is, however, systems in place that welcome participation like yours. Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) is an organization provided for in Part 97 of the Federal Communications Commission rules and regulations governing amateur radio. RACES stations are licensed to do exactly what it seems you wish to prepare to do. I would recommend you contact the Oregon Department of Emergency Management and describe exactly what you wish to do. You probably will be surprised how receptive they will be. Our office location: 3225 State St., Room 115 Salem, Oregon 97301 Map/Directions Hours of Operation: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday - Friday The Oregon Office of Emergency Management observes all state holidays including Martin Luther King Jr. Day, President's Day, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Veteran's Day, Christmas Day and New Year's Day. Loose cannons generally don't hit their aiming point but instead wreak collateral damage. Marv - KG7V K3S, KPA 500, KAT 500 -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of KG7FYI Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2017 6:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Elecraft] K3 P3 and KAT500 Thank you all for the responses. Our situation here is somewhat different regarding emergency preparedness. We are a very rural environment in SW Oregon. No cell service, frequent land line outages, very mountainous terrain and few options for communication in the event of an extreme emergency. The State of Oregon has been actively engaged with local ARES groups to prepare for an expected 9.1 subduction zone quake off of the Pacific Coast. All models point toward a complete disruption of all services for months and much of the destruction to disrupt the norm for years. Our community is isolated with the probability of all infrastructure collapsing and our demographic being physically unable to move in or out of the area except by foot. There are approximately 300 people within the thus affected zone. I am interested in opening up as much bandwidth as possible to provide maximum versatility for communication. This would include the MARS bands. We have several folks here with General and Extra class licenses. I don't think our radios should be encumbered with the limitation of band width. I suppose I could acquire the patch by some other means but I would just as soon have it from Elecraft. I have not purchased yet but I am particularly interested in the possibility of an amplifier for my radios. I wondered if the KAT500 hundred could handle more than 100 watts? In discussions with club members it is apparent that some are for and others against 1000 watt amps etc. I'm curious if the elecraft tuner has wattage limits. ----- Stan KG7FYI -- --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
