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Speaker 1: the aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, ham radio
Speaker 1: operators are being called out to volunteer for net control
Speaker 1: and for other duties. I found some really cool articles
Speaker 1: and interesting facts about how you can volunteer if you
Speaker 1: want to. I'm going to try to do it myself.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look. So this guy here is His
Speaker 1: channel is called Guns and Gadgets. He is Second Amendment News,
Speaker 1: Guns and Gadgets, Second and In News. I loosely follow him.
Speaker 1: In other words, I'm a subscriber and I see some
Speaker 1: of his videos come across my feed. I don't watch
Speaker 1: very many of them, but every now and then one
Speaker 1: catches my eye. This one was sent to me by
Speaker 1: someone on discord, and it said that they talk about
Speaker 1: a call out for amateur raider operators. So we're gonna
Speaker 1: start at the beginning. I'm going to let you guys
Speaker 1: listen to this and I've got some and then I
Speaker 1: followed the instructions in this video and we'll see where
Speaker 1: it goes from there.
Speaker 2: Hey, guys, welcome back to Guns and Gadgets. You know
Speaker 2: you should know the Man, the Myth, the Legend.
Speaker 3: This is TJ.
Speaker 2: Bear, Independent, a man the Myth, the Legend. We'll be
Speaker 2: here at Grindstone Ministries. I'm here at the fob where
Speaker 2: they are taking donations and sending him to people who are.
Speaker 3: Stuck in the mountains.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna let the man who is here on the
Speaker 2: ground talk to you about that here in a second.
Speaker 2: But guys, he doesn't even know want to say this.
Speaker 2: Grindstone Ministries doesn't take a single red scent.
Speaker 1: Okay, this guy on the left is with Grindstone Ministries,
Speaker 1: and those guys are right here and we're going to
Speaker 1: get to them here in just one second. So I'm
Speaker 1: going to see what the Guns and Gadget guy has
Speaker 1: to say, and then I'm going to fast forward to
Speaker 1: the end because that's where they talk about Ham Radio.
Speaker 3: From the government or victims.
Speaker 2: It's all pro bono work off of donations like you
Speaker 2: and me and my own.
Speaker 3: My viewership has stepped up.
Speaker 2: My friend, I am going to make a thirty thousand
Speaker 2: dollars donation to you to christ Now ministries.
Speaker 1: I would love to do that. And YouTube has been
Speaker 1: good to me, but not quite that good. Not yet.
Speaker 1: Maybe one day, Okay. So he interviews this guy and
Speaker 1: he goes on to talk about what's going on in
Speaker 1: North Carolina and Tennessee and how the title of this
Speaker 1: is pushing aid to hurricane victims through the FEMA blockades.
Speaker 1: So I mentioned on the live stream the other night
Speaker 1: that FEMA is turning people away. There's probably some legit
Speaker 1: reason for that, because people can't just show up and
Speaker 1: have stuff, and that it needs to be some sort
Speaker 1: of coordinated thing. But apparently this ministry here is coordinating
Speaker 1: efforts for relief and they're still getting turned away. I
Speaker 1: don't have all the story or all the details on that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out a little bit of it about
Speaker 1: it here, but I'm focusing on the ham Radio part.
Speaker 1: So that's what we're going to talk about today.
Speaker 3: What are they what do you need? Hell from because
Speaker 3: we will help get it for you.
Speaker 4: We need volunteers to start coming in in seven to
Speaker 4: ten day periods starting a week from now, and so
Speaker 4: coordinate all that through serve at Grindstone Ministries dot com.
Speaker 1: Bring your neighborhood, bring your so I emailed this servi
Speaker 1: at Grindstone Ministries dot com. And that's going to be
Speaker 1: the next part of the video after this part finishes.
Speaker 4: Church group, Bring your mutual assistance group. Bring some guys
Speaker 4: and girls from your company. Bring people here. We need
Speaker 4: logistics experts, we need hands and feet, equipment operators, we
Speaker 4: saw teams, sorry skits there. We need all the thanks,
Speaker 4: search and rescue, recovery teams, medical professionals, ham radio operators
Speaker 4: because there you get affective communication with two meter and
Speaker 4: seventy centimeter band right now.
Speaker 3: Because there's no COMMO here.
Speaker 4: We need all these things, but we need them to come.
Speaker 1: In two meter in seventy centimeters so he doesn't mention HF,
Speaker 1: which I know there's been a lot of HF used
Speaker 1: into and out of the area. Because VHF UHF is
Speaker 1: great for local comms no cell service. You set up
Speaker 1: repeters either permanent repeaters that are that are still in
Speaker 1: operation or deployable repeaters that you can use in a
Speaker 1: in a localized area. And that's great. But he didn't
Speaker 1: mention anything about HF so either he doesn't know about it,
Speaker 1: or maybe he just didn't mention it here, I don't.
Speaker 4: Know in the coordinated fashion, so we're I'm overwhelmed for
Speaker 4: one day with two hundred people and the next day
Speaker 4: we have zero. So coordinate all that through Servi at
Speaker 4: Gronstele Ministries dot com and then pray for these people.
Speaker 3: Please pray for these people.
Speaker 4: If you are a person of faith, lift these people up.
Speaker 4: They're hurting so bad that they are now checking out
Speaker 4: that they just can't take it anymore.
Speaker 3: And that's a tragedy.
Speaker 4: The storm is a tragedy, but the unnecessary loss of
Speaker 4: life is even more of a tragedy. And that's why
Speaker 4: we're literally fighting. We're operating behind enemy lines right now.
Speaker 3: Running.
Speaker 1: Okay, So he goes on to talk about FEMA a
Speaker 1: little bit more there, I will link this video. Blow guys,
Speaker 1: please go watch this video. It's only about ten minutes long.
Speaker 1: He talks a lot more about Grindstone Ministries there. So
Speaker 1: I emailed Serve at Grindstone Ministries dot com. Okay, and
Speaker 1: the email I sent was right here, and I said,
Speaker 1: in the beginning of the email, I said, hey, folks,
Speaker 1: I caught this video and I linked to the guns
Speaker 1: and Gadgets video and then I said, I'm a HAM
Speaker 1: Radio Operator General class. I run this YouTube channel, and
Speaker 1: I linked my channel of course, and then I and
Speaker 1: then I said, let me know what's needed and how
Speaker 1: I can help. And they replied back, short and sweet.
Speaker 1: Have Ham sign up at AMRON dot com, am R
Speaker 1: R o N dot com and then send contact info
Speaker 1: and availabibility here. So amarn dot com, So Grindstone Ministries
Speaker 1: dot com. He said, the email serve at Grindstone Ministries
Speaker 1: dot com. And that's their website right here. So I
Speaker 1: sent that via email. He talks about an Amazon wish
Speaker 1: list to help them with the work they're doing over there.
Speaker 1: That's right there. This is Helene deployment information. And I
Speaker 1: read through this and this is the same attachment that
Speaker 1: he puts at the bottom of this email right here.
Speaker 1: So what he's saying here is please read this entire communication.
Speaker 1: Prior to emailing, we tried to answer as many questions
Speaker 1: as we can. You must email, serve at Grindstone Ministries
Speaker 1: dot com and be approved for any and all volunteer opportunities.
Speaker 1: We appreciate your willingness to support, but we have to
Speaker 1: control access and follow a proper protocol to have a
Speaker 1: safe and effective effort. At this time, we'll not be
Speaker 1: accepting any more inbound volunteers until mid October early November.
Speaker 1: Well that's only a week away, guys. It's only a
Speaker 1: week away, So mid October, I would say October fifteenth.
Speaker 1: We need these people to be able to commit to
Speaker 1: a week on site, and it takes time to bring
Speaker 1: new folks up to speed and effectively assigned duties. We
Speaker 1: need people who are ready and able to take the
Speaker 1: assignment needed. Even if you are presenting with a specialized
Speaker 1: ability and skill set, if you want to come and
Speaker 1: serve in any capacity, we need volunteers who are able
Speaker 1: to come for seven to ten days. Do not come
Speaker 1: to the FOB forward Operations base. I think that is
Speaker 1: what that means without prior approval. This is cool deployment
Speaker 1: packing list, okay, and it goes through these things here.
Speaker 1: I might make a video building that pack right there,
Speaker 1: and then specialty equipment. Shine saw his heavy equipment, dump trailers,
Speaker 1: dump trucks, four by four pickups. Hey, I got one
Speaker 1: of those mechanical tools saw in medical equipment, long range comms,
Speaker 1: and internet equipment. Oh, I've got my star link, food prep,
Speaker 1: recovery and rigging equipment fobs. It's fuel, fuel transfer tanks, generators,
Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. So I will put this link
Speaker 1: and everything else linked in the description below. So when
Speaker 1: he emailed back and said have him sign up at
Speaker 1: amron dot com and then send contact info and availability here,
Speaker 1: I think I went to amorn dot com, which is
Speaker 1: right here, I don't think I replied to that email.
Speaker 1: So that's something I'm gonna have to do here in
Speaker 1: just one second. So we're gonna talk about amrom dot com.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about how I'm going to try to
Speaker 1: go over there here shortly. But first I wanted to
Speaker 1: talk to you about the importance of supporting amateur radio's
Speaker 1: national organization, the American Radio Relay League or the ABLE ORL.
Speaker 1: The a double RL has represented the interest of amateur
Speaker 1: radio operators in Washington for over one hundred years. In fact,
Speaker 1: this September they filed on opposition to the FCC against
Speaker 1: a corporate interest who wants to completely reconfigure the nine
Speaker 1: hundred megger hertz ban for commercial use, leading hundreds, if
Speaker 1: not more, of amateur radio operators without important band spectrum
Speaker 1: for things like digital mesh networks that are crucial to
Speaker 1: the digital communications design experimentation, which are becoming increasingly useful
Speaker 1: in emergency communications, much like what we're seeing here in
Speaker 1: this video. I wonder if they have a mesh tastic
Speaker 1: or an arden network set up at this location, At
Speaker 1: these locations that they're deploying people to. Something to think about.
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Speaker 1: supporting amateur radio and for supporting this channel. So after this,
Speaker 1: have Ham sign up at AMRON dot com. Now I've
Speaker 1: never heard of amarn dot com. Have you guys ever
Speaker 1: heard of this organization? I had not. Okay, maybe that's
Speaker 1: my fault, maybe that's too bad for me. But AMRON
Speaker 1: is the American Redoubt Radio Operators Network and the American
Speaker 1: Preparedness Radio Network tapper in, tap r in, tap r in.
Speaker 1: And this little logo up here on the top left
Speaker 1: says mrs cbf RS GMRS Channel three per project. And
Speaker 1: then of course has Ham Radio Operators by themselves over here,
Speaker 1: which yeah, okay, not that we're better, just that we
Speaker 1: offer more Okay, we have more capabilities. Okay, So they
Speaker 1: have some stuff over here. Now I've already contacted these
Speaker 1: guys via email. I went to this part right here.
Speaker 1: If we're gonna go read this real quick. AMRON supporting
Speaker 1: Grindstone Ministries and Hurricane Heleen. Okay, So through this and
Speaker 1: I contacted them the email which they which they requested.
Speaker 1: I got a response from them, and I traded two
Speaker 1: or three more emails with them after that, and I said,
Speaker 1: what about sometime in the not so distant future, when
Speaker 1: you guys get a chance, you guys come onto the
Speaker 1: channel and talk about just exactly what your organization is.
Speaker 1: And they said sure, yeah, we'd love to do that.
Speaker 1: And I asked them about posting this video today and
Speaker 1: they said, yes, please spread the words. So that's what
Speaker 1: we're doing today. AMRON is proudly supporting Grindstone Ministries by
Speaker 1: providing emergency communications in remote and grid downlocations of response
Speaker 1: the devastation from Hurricane Helen. Last weekend, AMRON was contact
Speaker 1: by Grindstone announcing the deployment of disaster response teams. After
Speaker 1: their on site assessment in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern
Speaker 1: Tennessee along the North Carolina border, they realized that there
Speaker 1: were absolutely no conventional communications available to many communities and
Speaker 1: areas in which teams would be operating. So we kind
Speaker 1: of already knew this. We didn't know how widespread. I
Speaker 1: still don't know exactly how widespread it is, but this
Speaker 1: is not new information that we have here.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: All week we have been feverishly working to deploy volunteer
Speaker 1: AMRON operators into the area to support disaster relief and
Speaker 1: rescue efforts from their FOB Forward Operating Base. Okay, I
Speaker 1: was pretty close to that in eastern Tennessee. Okay, it's
Speaker 1: about a thirteen hour drive for me. We have operators
Speaker 1: on site more inbound and coordinating between operations leadership at
Speaker 1: FOB and AMRON operations planners to provide communications supported by
Speaker 1: deployed operators for regional support team operators and rotational basis.
Speaker 1: Radio operators are deploying or planning to deploy for three
Speaker 1: to ten day rotations. And they were saying it before.
Speaker 1: They're like, you know, it's great that people want to
Speaker 1: come out there for three day, three or four days,
Speaker 1: but it takes a while to learn their process. Learn
Speaker 1: what you need to do, learn this, learn that. So
Speaker 1: seven to ten days is what they're looking for. So
Speaker 1: if I do what I want to do and I'm
Speaker 1: not able to go, yeah, I'll probably go for ten days. Guys,
Speaker 1: I will have a camera rolling that whole time. And
Speaker 1: it goes on to talk about a little bit more
Speaker 1: about the operations. Right here, I will link this article
Speaker 1: in the description below, so it says if you are
Speaker 1: a radio operator and you're currently active AMRON member, which
Speaker 1: I am not, because I've never heard of these guys,
Speaker 1: and you're interested in deploying with the Amron team, email
Speaker 1: John Jacob at amron dot com. Okay, and it doesn't
Speaker 1: put a link there, so you have to type it
Speaker 1: out no big deal type deployment. In the subject line,
Speaker 1: which I did, include your Amron call sign, your state,
Speaker 1: your membership status, dates of availability, how many days you're
Speaker 1: willing to deploy three to ten or question mark license level.
Speaker 1: We will follow up with you in the next forty
Speaker 1: eight hours with a brief operator capability survey and begin
Speaker 1: the process of scheduling into one of the upcoming rotations.
Speaker 1: So I sent them an email to the email address
Speaker 1: they requested, and here's what I said. I said, I'm
Speaker 1: interested in employment volunteering for a post to lean help.
Speaker 1: I caught this video. I'm a m radio operator general class.
Speaker 1: I run this YouTube channel. Of course I link my
Speaker 1: YouTube channel because why wouldn't die. That's who I am,
Speaker 1: That's what I do. And I said, and then I
Speaker 1: did gave the bullet points that they put on their website.
Speaker 1: Your Amron call sign, I said, I am not an
Speaker 1: AMRON member, but my call signs KC five HWB, my
Speaker 1: status Texas membership stablished, is neither dates of availability. I
Speaker 1: put October fourteenth and on, which is pretty much true.
Speaker 1: How many days are you willing to deploy for? And
Speaker 1: I said Tennis, fine, more if needed license level general.
Speaker 1: And I said, if I need to sign up and
Speaker 1: become an AMRON member, I can do that. Also. If
Speaker 1: AMRON is ever interested in being interviewed on my channel
Speaker 1: to talk about the activities that you do, please let
Speaker 1: me know. And when they replied back, they said, sure, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'd love to come on to your channel. We don't
Speaker 1: have anything set in stone yet, but they did say
Speaker 1: that so and then they sent me this warning order. Okay,
Speaker 1: and this is basically just like a CYA effort. I
Speaker 1: don't know, so let's see situation over you. Grindstone Ministries
Speaker 1: has requested communications support see if I can make there
Speaker 1: we go and specifically Amrong radio operators and supported their
Speaker 1: disaster relief ministry deployment in eastern Tennessee Jernesborough in response
Speaker 1: to catastrophic damage from Hurricane Heleen. GSM has established a
Speaker 1: FOB at a Baptist church in towns at Jonesborough and
Speaker 1: can bill it up to bill it up to one
Speaker 1: hundred volunteers and provide food, water shelter at the FOB
Speaker 1: is in a grid up location with internet, water and
Speaker 1: commercial power livestream just a half a mile away from
Speaker 1: none that exists. WOW. Specific request for radio operators to
Speaker 1: provide communications support for teams traveling into remote mountainous locations
Speaker 1: in extremely austere conditions. Several area repeaters are non operational
Speaker 1: and in many routes and locations, the GSM anticipates traveling
Speaker 1: to have no direct line of sight, no cell signal.
Speaker 1: For more specific GFM deployment including packing and equivalent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that deployment information for Helene Okay, many citizens of
Speaker 1: stranded locations running out or already out of food or water,
Speaker 1: portable pottable water and other needed care. This warn OH
Speaker 1: will come in THEPOD operations order. Once more details added,
Speaker 1: we will announce the mission, establish and maintain a rotational
Speaker 1: volunteer staff to provide unconventional communication support at the FOB
Speaker 1: or RTO radio telephone operator as an RTO roles may
Speaker 1: include attachment to disaster relief teams on various missions to
Speaker 1: include working cadaver dogs OH, delivering food, water aid to
Speaker 1: remote locations, clearing access routes, maintain communications Regional Support Team
Speaker 1: sig SEN Eastern, AMRON National providing periodic sit REPS STAT
Speaker 1: stat reps and other correspondence to support mission execution intent.
Speaker 1: Provide HF digital mode communications link from grid downlocations to AMRON, RST,
Speaker 1: Grindstone ministries and other organizations is necessary. Eighty meter INVIZ
Speaker 1: capabilities are very important. If possible, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 1: find my eighty meter intenna. So lots of other stuff here.
Speaker 1: I will put links to this and everything in the
Speaker 1: description below. Hey guys, so in the first video they
Speaker 1: were asking for they had a PayPal link. They had
Speaker 1: a link to an Amazon store where you could buy
Speaker 1: stuff to help them. They're actually rebuilding roads. If you
Speaker 1: go listen to that video from Guns and Gadgets, they're
Speaker 1: actually building roads like gravel roads into places where the
Speaker 1: roads were so devastated they can't get trucks into them,
Speaker 1: so they're actually building roads out. Okay, So yeah, this
Speaker 1: is inside of the USA and the storm was a
Speaker 1: week and a half ago, and they still don't have
Speaker 1: power and sell service in some areas. I will put
Speaker 1: a link to PayPal and their Amazon wish list in
Speaker 1: the description of this video you're watching right now. Check
Speaker 1: out all the links we shared today. Check out the
Speaker 1: guns and Gadgets video. It's only ten minutes long. Go
Speaker 1: watch that whole video. Get get a little bit more
Speaker 1: of a backstory than what I shared with you. And
Speaker 1: if you're interested in volunteering in this effort, go through
Speaker 1: the steps that I just mentioned to find out what
Speaker 1: kind of Maybe you guys. Some of you guys are
Speaker 1: probably closer than I am, So maybe you can go
Speaker 1: out there for four or five days and it won't
Speaker 1: take you an entire day to get there. I'm planning on.
Speaker 1: They're talking about bringing your own shelter, sleeping bag, cot
Speaker 1: and whatnot, and I'm like, dude, I got all that
Speaker 1: in the freaking truck. Like I've got my truck set
Speaker 1: up for overlanding deployments, if you want to use that word.
Speaker 1: And I can drive myself out there, set up my
Speaker 1: own cot, my own tent, my own everything. I don't
Speaker 1: need to take up any room from them. They see
Speaker 1: to bring say to bring your own food too, and
Speaker 1: I guess that means I got to bring frank because
Speaker 1: I don't ever cook for myself. I'm kidding sort of
Speaker 1: kind of a little bit. I don't know, you take
Speaker 1: Frank's beans out there to those people and they're not
Speaker 1: gonna invite you back, probably, But I think this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a cool opportunity. I mean, I'm sorry this
Speaker 1: happened to people, but I like the fact that so
Speaker 1: many groups are stepping up, and so many ham radio
Speaker 1: operators are stepping up, and they are calling out to
Speaker 1: more HAMM radio operators to volunteer for three to ten
Speaker 1: or more day stints in this area. So if it's
Speaker 1: something you can do, check out all the links in
Speaker 1: the description below. Thank you to the A Double Are
Speaker 1: for sponsoring this video and we'll catch you guys next time.
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