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The Petaluma NHW Net is Still Active

Several years ago, when the Petaluma CERT program (Community Emergency Response Team) was supported by the city (2005-2011), 24 members passed the FCC amateur radio exam (Technician Class) and formed what was called the "Petaluma Neighborhood Ham Watch Network." It's main purpose was to provide radio communication in the event [...]

By | May 25th, 2016|0 Comments

Petaluma ALERT – Alliance of Local Emergency Radio Teams

Today's blog is a copy of the May newsletter for Petaluma ALERT - Alliance of Local Emergency Radio Teams.  Since I am a FCC licensed amateur radio operator, KI6GOO, I have been promoting the use of amateur radios as a means of communication during a major disaster. Petaluma ALERT - [...]

By | May 23rd, 2015|0 Comments

Emergency Communications – At The Neighborhood Level

My twilight moment on May 1st, once again, dealt with emergency communications, when all normal sources of power (especially electricity) fail due to a local emergency or disaster. Most government EOCs (Emergency Operation Centers) and non-profit groups who maintain emergency networks (Red Cross, Salvation Army, and Amateur Radio Emergency Services [...]

By | May 2nd, 2015|0 Comments

Calling All Ham Radio Operators – 2015

Several years ago, volunteer neighborhood emergency response teams in Petaluma promoted the use of amateur radio operators (Hams) as communicators when most normal communication tools might be inoperable due to a major disaster and the loss of power. One of my earlier blogs, "Calling All Hams," was posted on January [...]

By | January 30th, 2015|0 Comments

How Many Senior Citizens Are Amateur Radio Operators?

For some reason I can't keep  Emergency Preparedness concerns out of my mind; especially the role that Hams or FCC licensed Amateur Radio Operators might play in the event of a major earthquake disaster. That question caused me to wake up at midnight this morning was, "How many Hams in Petaluma [...]

By | October 22nd, 2014|0 Comments

What is the Neighborhood HamWatch Model?

My last Emergency Preparedness blog (9-1-12), closed with a quote that described the type of EmComm service that Ham Emergency Radio Operators at the local community or neighborhood level can offer whenever a major disaster that causes loss of electric power to occur. The current NHW concept was initiated by [...]

By | September 11th, 2012|0 Comments

Ham Nation & Petaluma CERN

Just as Bob Heil changed the theme of his last Ham Nation #2 netcast on Leo Laporte's TWiT.tv network at the last minute, because of the current recovery efforts in Joplin, MO; The Trio changed the focus of today's blog due to comments made by Bob's guests as they discussed [...]

By | June 1st, 2011|1 Comment

“Calling All Hams”

On January 10th of this year, KI6GOO posted a blog titled, “CQ-Calling All Hams- CQ.” It starts out with the following paragraph: “This is KI6GOO calling all licensed amateur radio operators in the 94952, 94953, 94954 Zip Code areas. Doesn’t common sense tell us that we must be willing to [...]

By | July 7th, 2010|0 Comments

GOTA … ARRL Field Day

The blog team for “Our River Town” has been quite busy with local community projects and almost missed it; but, Eagle-Eyes, caught the story on the 6 p.m. NBC Bay Area News The blog team for “Our River Town” has been quite busy with local community projects report last Saturday [...]

By | June 28th, 2010|0 Comments

Communications! Communications! COMMUNICATIONS!

The top three major problems during the response phase of Hurricane Katrina (2005), according to one government official were “Communications, Communications, Communications.” The ability to communicate, when most communication systems were inoperable, was the major reason PetalumaNet initiated a series of events and meetings (Sept.-Oct. 2005) that focused on how [...]

By | May 25th, 2010|0 Comments