Amateur Radio Public Service Events
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In this video, I share my lessons learned after working my first public service event. I’ll walk you through the event timeline, what worked well, what didn’t work well, and how this experience will inform how I prepare for the next wilderness public service event.
The sixteen counties of the Northeast Wisconsin Public Safety Communications group (NEWCOM) hosted mobile communications equipment from around the region and the state at Marathon County Park (Marathon County, City of Wausau). In this video we take a tour of some of the equipment and test the interoperability between different public safety agencies and amateur radio. Our ARES/RACES group participated in a public safety emergency communications drill.
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Appreciate you recording and sharing. I'd like to get into this someday when I have a bit more experience under my hat.
73 from KD9SEG
That was awesome ! Thanks for taking us along !
Usa has many radio oprator so ypu can make thos type of activity but india we are only 22000 radio oprators and we get low progring invetation
Interesting video. I can't understand why – in many places – more time and effort isn't put into training.
Also, I just had to say it — I believe there are auctioneers out there who wish they could speak as rapidly as Amateur Radio Operators giving their call signs.
Very interesting event. Would love to join one day for networking and taking some ideas over to Europe. During recent floods in Germany public safety radio system has been damaged heavily in the disaster zone and also cell service was interrupted. As a small ngo we are always looking for new ideas to improve on communication.
I sometimes wonder why we need ham radio for emergencies when we have setups like some of the large comms trucks have? I know not every community has these but alot more do than they used to.
Wyd
Impressive ??????
As of 3:00pm on Easter Sunday of 2022 there has been an emergency service breaking in locally (NE Ohio) on gmrs ch2 462.5875. I heard them again at 7:00am this morning doing the same thing. They announced that they are the emergency service and tell police and other services not to reply, then they exit with call letters. Last night it was a man, this morning it was a woman, both sounded like they were definitely serious. I didn't get the call letters, but will be recording now. It seems that with what's going on in the East, they may have started something that I don't recall them doing before.
73s KE8OPY.
Liked the radio discipline demonstrated by the ham participants. Concise check ins, PLAIN language vs. Q-codes or other.
What a boss, you have a secretary!
very nice to see newcom safety drills ,like also in the Netherlands called Dares dutch amateur radio emergency society.
adriaan pa1ad
Low band radio?
Great thx for the reports! Will use some things u mentioned
Really cool info. All the PS events I was planning on were canceled this year, so it was nice to hear about your experiences. Thanks!
Good, solid info, Gaston! I'm glad ya had a good time with it! Any time you can walk away with a little more knowledge than you started is a good thing.
Excellent AAR as expected.. Thank you!
Really enjoyed this breakdown of your experience. You continue to show me new areas for Ham radios and ways to get better.
A good plastic comb with a handle also works well for removing cholla
Great to hear the Ham side of these long distance races… something I should definitely train for since I no longer race!
Just a correction – I don't think the the FT60R charges via 12v, it runs from 12v as a battery eliminator, but not charge.
Great report – lots of good detail. Our club supports 2 long distance bicycle events and your report echos a lot of our own findings. Events like this are a lot of fun for the hams.
Gaston, nice break down.
That was quite the event and you doing 24hrs, very impressive. I tooks suggestions from your last video but in my case they were not necessary. Things like my FT-857D and 12Ah Bioenno, While it was previously reported that an HT couldn't hit the repeater, that was not the case for me. I ran my FT-65R w/rubber ducky antenna all day 6:30 to 4:00 on the stock battery, with medium TX.
In short it was an awesome experience and the riders and crew were amazing.
I will be doing more events moving forward. 73
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I’m a native Californian, I did escape and move to NE. Anyway I grew up at the beach but played in the desert. We did all of this in 60’s throughout the 1970’s, we never had events like we have now out there. I’ve done many events like yours in recent years (1987-2010).