WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.640 --> 00:00:15.439 The Ham Radio two point zero audio podcast rip. Thank you for downloading and 2 00:00:15.480 --> 00:00:19.239 listening to this podcast. So basically what I do is I take all the 3 00:00:19.280 --> 00:00:24.679 audio clips out of my videos and upload them to spreaker, and then from 4 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:30.199 there they're spread out to iTunes and SoundCloud and now Amazon Audible as well. 5 00:00:31.199 --> 00:00:34.600 But I want to welcome you and thank you for joining the audio section of 6 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:39.679 this series on Ham Radio. I hope you enjoy it, and I would 7 00:00:39.679 --> 00:00:45.560 appreciate you leaving us a comment or a review on whatever podcast service you're listening 8 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:51.759 from. Thank you in seventy three. I hope you enjoy it. The 9 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:58.479 fires in Maui have shown stark spotlight on being prepared for disasters, but also 10 00:00:58.679 --> 00:01:02.880 on what is needed for bear essentials during a disaster. Here's one story that 11 00:01:02.920 --> 00:01:10.640 I found on this subject direct from Hawaii. Let's go okay. This comes 12 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:15.239 to us from kho N Channel two News in Honolulu. Kho N Channel two 13 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:19.480 News in Honolulu, and there's a video here that I'm a show part of 14 00:01:19.760 --> 00:01:25.920 that was aired presumably around August fourteen, fifteenth, the midst of hurricane season. 15 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:30.799 Preparedness is a must. This is Kilo Hotel six. Michael Miller is 16 00:01:30.879 --> 00:01:36.040 part of the Volunteer Amateur Radio Operators. Also a ZIGUE sixty one hundred right 17 00:01:36.079 --> 00:01:38.840 there. That's pretty cool, Oh, non s HAMS. In the events 18 00:01:38.879 --> 00:01:44.359 of an emergency would severe infrastructure failure, they could be our last resort to 19 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:48.159 push life saving information. That's a seven h six mark two G. I 20 00:01:48.239 --> 00:01:51.640 recognize it because I own two of them. If we're hit by a hurricane, 21 00:01:51.640 --> 00:01:53.680 and that's what this drill is simulating, what's going to happen is the 22 00:01:53.719 --> 00:02:00.239 Internet will go down on one or more islands, and counties will not able 23 00:02:00.239 --> 00:02:04.239 to communicate. So what we're going to be able to do is set up 24 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:08.199 our radios and our computers to be able to send voice messages. Miller says 25 00:02:08.240 --> 00:02:14.759 there are more than three thousand people who are FCC licensed to operate high frequency 26 00:02:14.879 --> 00:02:19.000 radios. The hams are planning on doing more than three thousand people. I'm 27 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.479 wondering what I wonder if they're referring to just in Hawaii. That's a very 28 00:02:22.520 --> 00:02:25.759 low number for the USA in total, So I assume they just mean in 29 00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:30.599 the islands of Hawaii. They're three thousand license to operate HF so that would 30 00:02:30.639 --> 00:02:36.439 mean general and above. Assuming that that statement is correcting an emergency training exercise 31 00:02:36.560 --> 00:02:40.560 next month. The idea is to share information between the islands. Hams will 32 00:02:40.599 --> 00:02:44.520 be in. He's on a four forty repeater right, I'm sorry, a 33 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:46.439 two meter repeater right there, one forty six dot eight eight. You know 34 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:53.120 we have our main aries Dallas Amateur Radio Club areas repeater is on one forty 35 00:02:53.199 --> 00:02:55.439 six dot eight eight. I think that's a popular frequency. Encourage to deploy 36 00:02:55.520 --> 00:03:01.400 their stations using off grid power. Basically pretend that electricity and cell phone services 37 00:03:01.599 --> 00:03:07.000 have gone dark every day at nine o'clock, noon and four o'clock. There's 38 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:12.000 an inner island net that connects all the islands together, so if one island 39 00:03:12.080 --> 00:03:15.240 was out of power or out of cell service, you could still communicate with 40 00:03:15.280 --> 00:03:25.599 the other islands. The Hawaii Department of Health recommends people have at least fourteen 41 00:03:25.759 --> 00:03:30.639 days supply of food if a hurricane does approach the islands, and families should 42 00:03:30.639 --> 00:03:36.800 have an emergency plan and a meetup location if separated. For Miller, operating 43 00:03:36.879 --> 00:03:40.280 high frequency radios has become a hobby, but it's a hobby that could save 44 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:45.599 a live so pretty cool setup piece got there with the there's a biowinnow right 45 00:03:45.639 --> 00:03:49.599 there, watch that towards the right of the screen, right behind his Zyger 46 00:03:49.680 --> 00:03:57.039 radio need it most There you go Biowinnow battery, zigu X and an Icon 47 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:00.639 seven H six Mark two G one of my favorite radios that I still own. 48 00:04:00.960 --> 00:04:04.199 But this article comes after the Hawaii fires, the fires in Maui, 49 00:04:04.800 --> 00:04:09.400 and it is a you know they're talking about doing this exercise. They say 50 00:04:09.479 --> 00:04:13.280 next month, so presumably September. I'm recording this video in August, just 51 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:16.439 a week or two after this article was posted. So the article goes on 52 00:04:16.480 --> 00:04:19.639 to say, what do we do when communications are down? Your cell phone 53 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:23.959 doesn't work and there's no internet? Now, I had a guy come by 54 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:27.319 the channel. He was a troll because he posted the same message on several 55 00:04:27.399 --> 00:04:32.160 videos my Newest Technician class that we recorded just last month with the W five 56 00:04:32.319 --> 00:04:38.120 HRC Hurst Club. He came by and he said, stop this nonsense, 57 00:04:38.240 --> 00:04:41.000 just get a mobile phone. Wow. I guess this guy must have some 58 00:04:41.079 --> 00:04:46.560 kind of magical mobile phone on a magical network that always has reception, always 59 00:04:46.600 --> 00:04:51.279 has good Internet, and never has dropped calls. I'd like to see that. 60 00:04:51.439 --> 00:04:55.360 But what do we do when communications are down? Your cellphone doesn't work. 61 00:04:55.399 --> 00:04:58.240 There's a device that comes into play that lots of people have never heard 62 00:04:58.279 --> 00:05:01.800 of, a Ham radio boom. Ham radio is increasingly popular tool that is 63 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:05.759 correct. The numbers of licensed amature radio operators in the USA and worldwide is 64 00:05:05.800 --> 00:05:11.800 growing. An increasingly popular tool that provides access to communications without cell phones or 65 00:05:11.839 --> 00:05:15.519 Internet. You can use cell phones Internet with the HAM radio, but they're 66 00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:21.240 not required. Important distinction. The radio utilizes frequencies for phone communications. Literally 67 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:28.920 we call voice communications single sideban and FM phone transmissions in Ham radio. It 68 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.360 can also access the Internet when no Internet is available. Yes, it can. 69 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:34.800 Ardent type mesh networking. You can talk to people near you, around 70 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:39.720 the world, or even in outer space. Has become increasingly popular for HAM 71 00:05:39.839 --> 00:05:43.360 radio operators to communicate with folks in their international space station. I'm going to 72 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:47.160 be doing some videos when I go to Galveston around Labor Day next month with 73 00:05:47.240 --> 00:05:53.920 the new Rfinder satellite rotor Stay tuned. A license is needed to operate recreate 74 00:05:54.120 --> 00:06:00.000 recreationally, but the license is often not necessary when dealing with a disaster situation 75 00:06:00.720 --> 00:06:03.759 that needs a little bit more expanding upon. That statement is correct. That 76 00:06:03.879 --> 00:06:09.839 statement is correct in times of emergency when there is an immediate threat to your 77 00:06:09.879 --> 00:06:13.800 life or property or people near you. You do not need a license to 78 00:06:13.800 --> 00:06:16.720 operate a HAM radio or a CB or a GMRS radio or a commercial band 79 00:06:16.800 --> 00:06:21.360 radio or anything, assuming that you have no other means of communication possible. 80 00:06:21.399 --> 00:06:25.639 So if your cell phone is down, you don't have a police car nearby 81 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:28.560 to key up on their radio, which I wouldn't suggest doing that anyway, 82 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:30.879 and you don't have any other way to communicate, you can grab a HAM 83 00:06:31.000 --> 00:06:34.439 radio without a license or GMRS radio without a license and operate it. Yes, 84 00:06:34.519 --> 00:06:36.759 you can do that. Here's the thing. Are you going to know 85 00:06:36.800 --> 00:06:42.040 how to do that? Have you prepared on programming radios? Do you know 86 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:44.720 if I were to hand you a radio right now, and I were to 87 00:06:44.759 --> 00:06:48.240 say to you, program in the one eight eight repeater with a negative offset 88 00:06:48.240 --> 00:06:54.120 of six hundred kill hurts and appealed tone of one ten dot nine and monitor 89 00:06:54.160 --> 00:06:56.800 where we're going to be talking, would you know how to do that? 90 00:06:57.000 --> 00:06:59.279 You don't buy a Ham radio and put it in a drawer and wait for 91 00:06:59.319 --> 00:07:01.879 an emergency to arise and say I don't need a license and have no clue 92 00:07:01.879 --> 00:07:05.199 how to use it. I often liken this into buying a handgun. You 93 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:09.519 don't go buy a handgun and take it and put it in your nightstand drawer 94 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.759 or hopefully in a lockbox, and then wait for someone to break in your 95 00:07:12.759 --> 00:07:15.199 home and hope that you have the skills to take the gun out, load 96 00:07:15.279 --> 00:07:18.959 it correctly, and shoot it in the right direction without harming anyone else. 97 00:07:19.000 --> 00:07:23.319 You don't do that. You take it to the ring if you're a responsible 98 00:07:23.360 --> 00:07:26.600 person. If you're a responsible gun owner, you take it to the range 99 00:07:26.600 --> 00:07:29.399 and you practice with it, which is actually quite fun, just like cam 100 00:07:29.519 --> 00:07:32.920 radio is fun. So taking it out to the park, activating parks on 101 00:07:32.959 --> 00:07:38.000 the air, going out into the field and playing radio, talking on repeaters, 102 00:07:38.079 --> 00:07:41.800 joining nets, and programming your radio can be fun, and it prepares 103 00:07:41.879 --> 00:07:46.240 you for what might happen one day, but you hope never does. It 104 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:47.839 goes on to say that the license is not difficult to get. There are 105 00:07:47.839 --> 00:07:53.639 many online courses and test prep sites that help you prepare for the exam. 106 00:07:53.720 --> 00:07:57.160 Once you have taken it, then your license is valid for ten years, 107 00:07:57.600 --> 00:08:00.160 with the need only to renew it. There is no need to take the 108 00:08:00.199 --> 00:08:03.720 test again. Very true. That brings us to today's topic of Ham Radio 109 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:07.639 Prep. 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They 118 00:08:39.320 --> 00:08:43.919 have gotten many many new people licensed in Ham Radio. You can get Technician, 119 00:08:43.159 --> 00:08:48.440 General or Extra, and they have other training courses for radios outside of 120 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:50.919 that. Visit Ham Radio Prep today and use the coupon code of Jason twenty 121 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.879 for a twenty percent discount on everything they offer. It is important to note 122 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:58.759 that the test is about how to use the radio, what frequencies mean, 123 00:08:58.799 --> 00:09:03.000 and how to maximize and use communications device with all when all other options have 124 00:09:03.080 --> 00:09:05.080 disappeared, When all other options have disappeared. Yes, okay, that is 125 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:09.159 an accurate statement. One of the worst parts of what is happening with the 126 00:09:09.200 --> 00:09:13.960 Maui fires is that the fires destroyed communications capabilities across the board. People need 127 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:18.039 medications, they need to locate loved line ones, and they need information. 128 00:09:18.279 --> 00:09:24.159 This is where local Hawaii ham radio operators come in. Kho N two dot 129 00:09:24.200 --> 00:09:26.039 Com was able to catch up with Michael Miller. That's the video we just 130 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:30.240 watch to talk about the need to grow and develop a larger hand radio community 131 00:09:30.240 --> 00:09:33.200 in Hawaii to help mitigate the lack of communications during disasters. So I want 132 00:09:33.200 --> 00:09:39.440 to touch on this point right here. Maui fires destroyed communications capabilities across the 133 00:09:39.440 --> 00:09:43.919 board. So what people don't realize is that you can't pick up your smartphone 134 00:09:43.960 --> 00:09:46.200 and dial another smartphone directly. If my wife is sitting in the house right 135 00:09:46.200 --> 00:09:50.720 now, or my neighbor across or right on the other side of my yard 136 00:09:50.840 --> 00:09:54.200 right there, if I dial his phone number or the neighbor or my wife 137 00:09:54.200 --> 00:09:56.480 inside the house, this signal goes out of the phone to a tower, 138 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:01.200 to a cell tower in my area, and then back to my wife who's 139 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:03.759 sitting twenty feet from me. I can't dial direct from my phone to her 140 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:09.120 phone phone without going through some sort of infrastructure repeater, cell tower, etc. 141 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:13.960 You can do that simplex with the radio, especially in HF. HF 142 00:10:15.039 --> 00:10:20.919 radio goes direct radio to direct radio and does not require any infrastructure satellites, 143 00:10:20.120 --> 00:10:24.519 repeaters, cell phone networks, cell towers, anything like that. Doesn't require 144 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:28.440 anything like that to work properly. So in the event of a disaster like 145 00:10:28.519 --> 00:10:33.639 the fires that destroyed infrastructure, destroyed cell towers, destroyed radio towers, you 146 00:10:33.639 --> 00:10:37.440 can talk on Ham radio and other radio too. GMRS radio is the same 147 00:10:37.440 --> 00:10:41.480 way. CB Radio's the same way. You can talk on radios direct to 148 00:10:41.639 --> 00:10:46.279 other radio operators around the country, around the world, with no need for 149 00:10:46.399 --> 00:10:50.440 infrastructure. It goes on to talk about how to get a Ham radio license. 150 00:10:50.440 --> 00:10:52.559 It costs thirty five dollars to get your license. You will not be 151 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:56.360 alone in the journey to talking about Hawaii's Emergency Amateur Radio Club. Hence, 152 00:10:56.399 --> 00:11:00.360 the more operators that are out there, the better communication network is. Zombie 153 00:11:00.399 --> 00:11:05.120 apocalypse no problem. Cataclysmic earthquake not a problem, devastating fire no problem. 154 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:09.519 Hand radio operators have the capability of providing communications when there are no other options. 155 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:13.399 Possible. This is a really good This is a really good article. 156 00:11:13.600 --> 00:11:16.480 I enjoyed reading through this article and I'm glad I was able to share it 157 00:11:16.519 --> 00:11:18.399 with you guys. I don't want to read through the whole thing. You 158 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.679 guys don't want to see me reading an entire article by myself, but I 159 00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:26.960 suggest I will share the link to this article against at kho N two dot 160 00:11:26.960 --> 00:11:31.159 com. Moral of the story is that hand radio is incredibly useful during disasters 161 00:11:31.240 --> 00:11:35.240 and emergency preparedness. You want to have a form of communication. If you 162 00:11:35.279 --> 00:11:41.720 are putting together a bugout plan, a disaster preparedness plan, an emergency pack, 163 00:11:41.799 --> 00:11:46.480 You're gonna want to have a way to communicate with the outside world, 164 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:50.279 even if that's just a listening only device, so you can listening to see 165 00:11:50.320 --> 00:11:54.279 what's going on in your area or in the affected area. So get your 166 00:11:54.320 --> 00:11:58.720 hand radio license today. Check out the link in the description for this article. 167 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:01.960 Thank you for watching, and let me know if you have a similar 168 00:12:01.960 --> 00:12:03.600 story to this one. Put a comment below and catch you next time.