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fires in Maui have shown stark spotlight on being prepared for disasters, but also
on what is needed for bear essentials during a disaster. Here's one story that
I found on this subject direct from Hawaii. Let's go okay. This comes
to us from kho N Channel two News in Honolulu. Kho N Channel two
News in Honolulu, and there's a video here that I'm a show part of
that was aired presumably around August fourteen, fifteenth, the midst of hurricane season.
Preparedness is a must. This is Kilo Hotel six. Michael Miller is
part of the Volunteer Amateur Radio Operators. Also a ZIGUE sixty one hundred right
there. That's pretty cool, Oh, non s HAMS. In the events
of an emergency would severe infrastructure failure, they could be our last resort to
push life saving information. That's a seven h six mark two G. I
recognize it because I own two of them. If we're hit by a hurricane,
and that's what this drill is simulating, what's going to happen is the
Internet will go down on one or more islands, and counties will not able
to communicate. So what we're going to be able to do is set up
our radios and our computers to be able to send voice messages. Miller says
there are more than three thousand people who are FCC licensed to operate high frequency
radios. The hams are planning on doing more than three thousand people. I'm
wondering what I wonder if they're referring to just in Hawaii. That's a very
low number for the USA in total, So I assume they just mean in
the islands of Hawaii. They're three thousand license to operate HF so that would
mean general and above. Assuming that that statement is correcting an emergency training exercise
next month. The idea is to share information between the islands. Hams will
be in. He's on a four forty repeater right, I'm sorry, a
two meter repeater right there, one forty six dot eight eight. You know
we have our main aries Dallas Amateur Radio Club areas repeater is on one forty
six dot eight eight. I think that's a popular frequency. Encourage to deploy
their stations using off grid power. Basically pretend that electricity and cell phone services
have gone dark every day at nine o'clock, noon and four o'clock. There's
an inner island net that connects all the islands together, so if one island
was out of power or out of cell service, you could still communicate with
the other islands. The Hawaii Department of Health recommends people have at least fourteen
days supply of food if a hurricane does approach the islands, and families should
have an emergency plan and a meetup location if separated. For Miller, operating
high frequency radios has become a hobby, but it's a hobby that could save
a live so pretty cool setup piece got there with the there's a biowinnow right
there, watch that towards the right of the screen, right behind his Zyger
radio need it most There you go Biowinnow battery, zigu X and an Icon
seven H six Mark two G one of my favorite radios that I still own.
But this article comes after the Hawaii fires, the fires in Maui,
and it is a you know they're talking about doing this exercise. They say
next month, so presumably September. I'm recording this video in August, just
a week or two after this article was posted. So the article goes on
to say, what do we do when communications are down? Your cell phone
doesn't work and there's no internet? Now, I had a guy come by
the channel. He was a troll because he posted the same message on several
videos my Newest Technician class that we recorded just last month with the W five
HRC Hurst Club. He came by and he said, stop this nonsense,
just get a mobile phone. Wow. I guess this guy must have some
kind of magical mobile phone on a magical network that always has reception, always
has good Internet, and never has dropped calls. I'd like to see that.
But what do we do when communications are down? Your cellphone doesn't work.
There's a device that comes into play that lots of people have never heard
of, a Ham radio boom. Ham radio is increasingly popular tool that is
correct. The numbers of licensed amature radio operators in the USA and worldwide is
growing. An increasingly popular tool that provides access to communications without cell phones or
Internet. You can use cell phones Internet with the HAM radio, but they're
not required. Important distinction. The radio utilizes frequencies for phone communications. Literally
we call voice communications single sideban and FM phone transmissions in Ham radio. It
can also access the Internet when no Internet is available. Yes, it can.
Ardent type mesh networking. You can talk to people near you, around
the world, or even in outer space. Has become increasingly popular for HAM
radio operators to communicate with folks in their international space station. I'm going to
be doing some videos when I go to Galveston around Labor Day next month with
the new Rfinder satellite rotor Stay tuned. A license is needed to operate recreate
recreationally, but the license is often not necessary when dealing with a disaster situation
that needs a little bit more expanding upon. That statement is correct. That
statement is correct in times of emergency when there is an immediate threat to your
life or property or people near you. You do not need a license to
operate a HAM radio or a CB or a GMRS radio or a commercial band
radio or anything, assuming that you have no other means of communication possible.
So if your cell phone is down, you don't have a police car nearby
to key up on their radio, which I wouldn't suggest doing that anyway,
and you don't have any other way to communicate, you can grab a HAM
radio without a license or GMRS radio without a license and operate it. Yes,
you can do that. Here's the thing. Are you going to know
how to do that? Have you prepared on programming radios? Do you know
if I were to hand you a radio right now, and I were to
say to you, program in the one eight eight repeater with a negative offset
of six hundred kill hurts and appealed tone of one ten dot nine and monitor
where we're going to be talking, would you know how to do that?
You don't buy a Ham radio and put it in a drawer and wait for
an emergency to arise and say I don't need a license and have no clue
how to use it. I often liken this into buying a handgun. You
don't go buy a handgun and take it and put it in your nightstand drawer
or hopefully in a lockbox, and then wait for someone to break in your
home and hope that you have the skills to take the gun out, load
it correctly, and shoot it in the right direction without harming anyone else.
You don't do that. You take it to the ring if you're a responsible
person. If you're a responsible gun owner, you take it to the range
and you practice with it, which is actually quite fun, just like cam
radio is fun. So taking it out to the park, activating parks on
the air, going out into the field and playing radio, talking on repeaters,
joining nets, and programming your radio can be fun, and it prepares
you for what might happen one day, but you hope never does. It
goes on to say that the license is not difficult to get. There are
many online courses and test prep sites that help you prepare for the exam.
Once you have taken it, then your license is valid for ten years,
with the need only to renew it. There is no need to take the
test again. Very true. That brings us to today's topic of Ham Radio
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that the test is about how to use the radio, what frequencies mean,
and how to maximize and use communications device with all when all other options have
disappeared, When all other options have disappeared. Yes, okay, that is
an accurate statement. One of the worst parts of what is happening with the
Maui fires is that the fires destroyed communications capabilities across the board. People need
medications, they need to locate loved line ones, and they need information.
This is where local Hawaii ham radio operators come in. Kho N two dot
Com was able to catch up with Michael Miller. That's the video we just
watch to talk about the need to grow and develop a larger hand radio community
in Hawaii to help mitigate the lack of communications during disasters. So I want
to touch on this point right here. Maui fires destroyed communications capabilities across the
board. So what people don't realize is that you can't pick up your smartphone
and dial another smartphone directly. If my wife is sitting in the house right
now, or my neighbor across or right on the other side of my yard
right there, if I dial his phone number or the neighbor or my wife
inside the house, this signal goes out of the phone to a tower,
to a cell tower in my area, and then back to my wife who's
sitting twenty feet from me. I can't dial direct from my phone to her
phone phone without going through some sort of infrastructure repeater, cell tower, etc.
You can do that simplex with the radio, especially in HF. HF
radio goes direct radio to direct radio and does not require any infrastructure satellites,
repeaters, cell phone networks, cell towers, anything like that. Doesn't require
anything like that to work properly. So in the event of a disaster like
the fires that destroyed infrastructure, destroyed cell towers, destroyed radio towers, you
can talk on Ham radio and other radio too. GMRS radio is the same
way. CB Radio's the same way. You can talk on radios direct to
other radio operators around the country, around the world, with no need for
infrastructure. It goes on to talk about how to get a Ham radio license.
It costs thirty five dollars to get your license. You will not be
alone in the journey to talking about Hawaii's Emergency Amateur Radio Club. Hence,
the more operators that are out there, the better communication network is. Zombie
apocalypse no problem. Cataclysmic earthquake not a problem, devastating fire no problem.
Hand radio operators have the capability of providing communications when there are no other options.
Possible. This is a really good This is a really good article.
I enjoyed reading through this article and I'm glad I was able to share it
with you guys. I don't want to read through the whole thing. You
guys don't want to see me reading an entire article by myself, but I
suggest I will share the link to this article against at kho N two dot
com. Moral of the story is that hand radio is incredibly useful during disasters
and emergency preparedness. You want to have a form of communication. If you
are putting together a bugout plan, a disaster preparedness plan, an emergency pack,
You're gonna want to have a way to communicate with the outside world,
even if that's just a listening only device, so you can listening to see
what's going on in your area or in the affected area. So get your
hand radio license today. Check out the link in the description for this article.
Thank you for watching, and let me know if you have a similar
story to this one. Put a comment below and catch you next time.