Almost seven years, to the date, our local newscasts are describing Hurricane Isaac and its projected path by Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, on its way toward New Orleans. No one, at this time, knows for sure what will happen over the next few days. Wikipedia, posted the following [...]
That is a question often asked by bloggers as they struggle to capture the attention of their readers and to hopefully engage them in a dialogue related to the topics posted by the blogger. This is a question I have often asked myself after having posted 85 blogs related to [...]
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 [...]
Every since I was a youngster, I remember hearing how the American Red Cross volunteers would come to the aid of disaster survivors. In today's Press Democrat 9/1/2011, B5, the headline for the "Close to Home" column by Eileen Adams, chairwoman of the board of directors of the American Red [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
... 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 [...]
The following message from CERN is "for your information." It is a site that anyone can subscribe to so that they may receive updated Emergency Preparedness announcement. Please remember, it's not a question of IF but WHEN. California Emergency Radio Network (CERN Messages In This Digest (1 Message) Earthquakes can [...]
I hesitated using the above title for today's blog. Initially, I thought about using, "Oh, no! Not again!" or "Here we go again." After reviewing over 60 blogs that have been posted on this site since September 7, 2006, under the Emergency Preparedness heading, I decided to simply ask, When [...]