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 [...]
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 [...]
The 7th Annual NPM sponsored by FEMA has been underway for a week and Petaluma ALERT is registered as one of a few thousand communities in the country that are planning events and activities that are designed to make the public more aware and informed about how to Be Ready [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
When The Trio (Me, Myself & I) uses “Oh no! Not again …” for the title of a blog, it usually means another earthquake has happened nearby our favorite river town. However, no - not this time. It’s only 2 a.m. and Me wakes up worrying about paying the monthly [...]
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 step up to the plate and be ready to help our neighbors in light of the various natural disasters over the years, [...]