Quite by accident, I "discovered" on the "Discovery Channel" last night, a TV show titled ... (see above.) This 1938 natural event "was one of the most destructive and powerful storms to ever strike Southern New England." It came up the Atlantic coast and on September 21 hit the shoreline [...]
Over the past 10 days, 10 Petaluma Neighborhood Ham Emergency Radio Operators (HEROs) volunteered their time and amateur radio equipment to field test the "signal strength" of their message transmissions to and from various public school sites in the greater Petaluma area. A final signal check, that included public parks [...]
How many readers remember that two of the very first categories of this Petaluma360 blog site in March 2006 were titled, Our Cyberplace and Our Information Highway. They reported what was happening with the pilot projects sponsored by PetalumaNet, founded in 1995. Over the ten year period, 1995-2005, PN expanded [...]
What do you know? The Petaluma NERT (Neighborhood Emergency Response Team) concept; initially announced on an Internet TV program (October 19, 2005), following the Hurricane Katrina disaster in the Gulf Coast region, has slowly circulated around Sonoma County and resurfaced recently in Sebastopol under the title, "Map Your Neighborhood." http://sebastopol.towns.pressdemocrat.com/2011/08/news/sebastopol-creating-neighborhood-emergency-groups/ [...]
Leo Laporte, a local Petaluman, now known worldwide as "The Tech Guy" and founder of TWiT Netcast Network, passed his Technician Class amateur radio exam. He is the newest Ham radio operator in Petaluma and his call sign is "in the mail." For those readers who follow TWiT.tv also know [...]
Eagle-Eyes didn't have any difficulty spotting the headline in today's Press Democrat about amateur radio. The words "Airwave assistants - County amateur radio group valuable where cell phones fail," plus the photograph of the communications vehicle for the Sonoma County Radio Amateur club practically jumps off the front page of [...]
... was the conclusion reached by The Trio after they watched the initial broadcast of Ham Nation, hosted by Bob Heil (K9EID) and made available to the world via Leo Laporte's "Live TWiT.tv" last Tuesday evening. It was only 2:00 a.m., the next day, that Hammerhead woke up our blog [...]
Ground starts shaking ... so, you "Duck, Cover, and Hold On." That has been the basic message of the "Great California ShakeOut!" drill for the past two years. This annual event has now spread to include the entire state. It has been estimated that over eight million citizens participated this [...]
Today's blog is the fourth in a series that addresses concerns about citizens being Ready & Prepared to cope with a sudden major disaster, like an earthquake along our local Rodgers Creek Fault. Next week's Great California ShakeOut (10/21) is being sponsored to help make people more aware of what [...]
On October 19 - five years ago (2005), a "Special Report" video was titled, Emergency Preparedness - Can Sonoma County Communicate? and produced by the Clearstream Media Group. Panel presenters included the Deputy Emergency Services Coordinator for Sonoma County, the South County Auxiliary Services Communications Team Leader (ACS), the Petaluma [...]