Americans prove that time and time again. Guaranteed no one asked who they voted for prior to rendering any needed aid, things like these tragedies bring out the best in all of us. 🍻
It's great that you're bringing attention to this and how all ham enthusiasts could similarly help when these types of situations happen. One observation of the audio portion, you may want to go back and mute out the personally identifying information of the victims in the audio communications, for safety purposes.
I had thought of that actually and for future videos I certainly will, my initial thought on this was that since it was broadcasted over open frequencies it wasn't an issue, and legally it isn't, but I agree with you..... I will certainly do that in the future, I also may just to a live broadcast for the next one and see if that is beneficial to people as well. Channel is still growing and as a result, learning.... I appreciate the suggestion.
He was in statesville, NC and linked to the Mt. Mitchell repeater which is in the middle of the disaster area. Highest mountain East of Mississippi. He is a retired TCO. He is a hero in my book. We had a house in the Burnsville area, and still have friends there.....who lived on a river. (Pensacola township) I've been able to piece some things together from listening. We're in our own disaster area in SC. My DMR systems never went down even though my 50 ft tower went down. We're worn out down here, but I'm ready to go up there. Waynesville: my son and family are there. 97/99 cell towers were out in region. Finally got him, they're ok. His 3 radios I had given him were dead . Don't let this happen people. Glenn SCDNR/retired SRT 1+2 Helo Aquatic
@@gdavis316 yes! Awesome advice and really good to hear that your DMR system never went down. Glad to hear your family is ok and if you need anything please don’t hesitate to reach out and we’ll see what we can pull together. Stay safe.
If you were listening to the broadcastify feed i believe that feed is (or at least has been) on the Mt Mitchell repeater which is 145.190 i think. Just fyi
i was listening also, what a great group of individuals. they were going around and telling people about gas stations and food availablility. wow. i was on my local net here in ohio and was telling everyone about it. and of course they continued to push it aside and not talk about it. kudos to W4HTP!!! we need something like this in ohio. instead of HAMS talking about thier cats.......
PREACH ON!!! I"m finding that there are a lot more of us out there that have the same thought process...... Have an idea that is being slowly established and will eventually get the word out on it on this channel.
Each Hurricane/Storm is unique in and of itself, and there's really no comparing one to the other. Katrina in '05 flooded the City of New Orleans proper (and close surrounding areas) with flood waters up to many roof-tops. Countless people took refuge on roofs and were waiting days (some several) for evacuation by helo or boat. Loss of life was in the range of 2,000, with hundreds of victims still unidentified. I was voluntarily recalled to my old agency, and a week there, I returned home and helped organize local public safety comms. The repeaters and backups were down... operators became the "repeaters" with strategically located relays. Electricity was out for 1 to 4 months - depending on where... 6 weeks for me. One thing I found extremely vulgar were elected "officials" going around showing their @sses at shelters and hospitals, but did absolutely nothing to help anyone. On the other hand, I'll sing the praises of the Louisiana Air National Guard... they had their act together !
This is typical from those just looking to make personal gain from others suffering. Awesome job by you, one of the things that concerns me is how unfamiliar people are with their issued radio equipment and this from a wide range of agencies. I don’t think the overwhelming majority of them would even know what a simplex channel is, much less how to switch to it.
@RANTStrategies The majority DIDN'T know how to make full use of the 700/800mhz mobiles & portables. Simplex was basically unknown, and there weren't that many dedicated simplex channels. After 72 hours, the NOPD lost practically all comms. Batteries went dead... radios were submerged. I told my Chief to send everyone everywhere that sold VHF Marine radios and buy every last one available. That's how they stayed on the air prior to, during, and for 3 months after. Using 4 of the "non commercial" channels, while listening to 16 & 21a. In my Parish, the comms were a mishmash of VHF hi, UHF, and 700...
@@baronedipiemonte3990 WOW!!!! Spot on, you know EXACTLY what I’m talking about. Glad the FCC gods didn’t rain down hate for transmitting from land on marine VHF 🤦♂️ Great thinking on your end though!
@RANTStrategies Our Department already had MOUs with the Coast Guard... and for more than a few days, PDs, SDs, FDs, and EMS were in BOATS... I DO hope that other States & jurisdictions learned from Katrina what DIDN'T work.
Yup, and honestly, I think that is a lot to ask of people. You can never have enough training, I'm a perpetual student, but I there is also a healthy balance to avoid burnout. We have an idea that is slowly evolving and I think a lot of the people on this channel will be into it..... more info to come on this channel when its established.
One more thing. Work on you comms plan. 1st is with God. Pray, pray, pray. 2nd is .....take those dangs radios out of the can and get on a practice net once a week. Rotate the radios to insure they are charged. My first was Hugo. As a state game warden, all our towers went down on the coast. No plan, wasn't a ham back then. Now south Carolina has 3 robust free ham systems SCHEART. Many dedicated people make it happen
The station requesting the health and welfare check wasted time not phoneticly pronouncing all the info. Net control asked for repeats a few times to get all info.
LMAO, appreciate you calling me out..... I'm definitely not from the South so I cannot speculate on that one.... but it has been corrected. Thanks again!
@@sleeve8651 Nah, I wish I could claim that as intentional, but just a complete oversight on my end. Preparing for these courses this week and trying to film a video, edit it and push it out all at the same time just had me rushing faster than I could keep up. I appreciate being called out; no offense taken on my end. Stay safe my friend!
I’ve never listened to a civilian op like this via radio. Very organized and impressive!
@@BlueForce275 couldn’t agree more! I felt the exact same way
GREAT job
👏🏼Great job! All that NET practice paid off 👏🏼
Lots of good people out there. Just takes something to bring them together.
Regular Americans turn into heroes when times are tough.
Americans prove that time and time again. Guaranteed no one asked who they voted for prior to rendering any needed aid, things like these tragedies bring out the best in all of us. 🍻
It's great that you're bringing attention to this and how all ham enthusiasts could similarly help when these types of situations happen. One observation of the audio portion, you may want to go back and mute out the personally identifying information of the victims in the audio communications, for safety purposes.
I had thought of that actually and for future videos I certainly will, my initial thought on this was that since it was broadcasted over open frequencies it wasn't an issue, and legally it isn't, but I agree with you..... I will certainly do that in the future, I also may just to a live broadcast for the next one and see if that is beneficial to people as well. Channel is still growing and as a result, learning.... I appreciate the suggestion.
Great work by all hams that were helping others.
It was awesome to listen to! I was very impressed with all it and for those that are into preparedness, this is what we should be striving for.
He was in statesville, NC and linked to the Mt. Mitchell repeater which is in the middle of the disaster area. Highest mountain East of Mississippi. He is a retired TCO. He is a hero in my book. We had a house in the Burnsville area, and still have friends there.....who lived on a river. (Pensacola township) I've been able to piece some things together from listening. We're in our own disaster area in SC. My DMR systems never went down even though my 50 ft tower went down. We're worn out down here, but I'm ready to go up there.
Waynesville: my son and family are there. 97/99 cell towers were out in region. Finally got him, they're ok. His 3 radios I had given him were dead . Don't let this happen people.
Glenn SCDNR/retired
SRT 1+2 Helo Aquatic
@@gdavis316 yes! Awesome advice and really good to hear that your DMR system never went down. Glad to hear your family is ok and if you need anything please don’t hesitate to reach out and we’ll see what we can pull together. Stay safe.
Thats how its done. Great job!
If you were listening to the broadcastify feed i believe that feed is (or at least has been) on the Mt Mitchell repeater which is 145.190 i think.
Just fyi
i was listening also, what a great group of individuals. they were going around and telling people about gas stations and food availablility. wow. i was on my local net here in ohio and was telling everyone about it. and of course they continued to push it aside and not talk about it. kudos to W4HTP!!! we need something like this in ohio. instead of HAMS talking about thier cats.......
PREACH ON!!! I"m finding that there are a lot more of us out there that have the same thought process...... Have an idea that is being slowly established and will eventually get the word out on it on this channel.
I'm listening
You need to listen to 145 190 ...
They been going , since almost since the storm started...
Net controller is Dan ...
Mt Mitchell repeater ...
Thanks for the info
@@RANTStrategies you are very welcome
Each Hurricane/Storm is unique in and of itself, and there's really no comparing one to the other. Katrina in '05 flooded the City of New Orleans proper (and close surrounding areas) with flood waters up to many roof-tops. Countless people took refuge on roofs and were waiting days (some several) for evacuation by helo or boat. Loss of life was in the range of 2,000, with hundreds of victims still unidentified. I was voluntarily recalled to my old agency, and a week there, I returned home and helped organize local public safety comms. The repeaters and backups were down... operators became the "repeaters" with strategically located relays. Electricity was out for 1 to 4 months - depending on where... 6 weeks for me. One thing I found extremely vulgar were elected "officials" going around showing their @sses at shelters and hospitals, but did absolutely nothing to help anyone. On the other hand, I'll sing the praises of the Louisiana Air National Guard... they had their act together !
This is typical from those just looking to make personal gain from others suffering. Awesome job by you, one of the things that concerns me is how unfamiliar people are with their issued radio equipment and this from a wide range of agencies. I don’t think the overwhelming majority of them would even know what a simplex channel is, much less how to switch to it.
@RANTStrategies The majority DIDN'T know how to make full use of the 700/800mhz mobiles & portables. Simplex was basically unknown, and there weren't that many dedicated simplex channels. After 72 hours, the NOPD lost practically all comms. Batteries went dead... radios were submerged. I told my Chief to send everyone everywhere that sold VHF Marine radios and buy every last one available. That's how they stayed on the air prior to, during, and for 3 months after. Using 4 of the "non commercial" channels, while listening to 16 & 21a. In my Parish, the comms were a mishmash of VHF hi, UHF, and 700...
@@baronedipiemonte3990 WOW!!!! Spot on, you know EXACTLY what I’m talking about. Glad the FCC gods didn’t rain down hate for transmitting from land on marine VHF 🤦♂️ Great thinking on your end though!
@RANTStrategies Our Department already had MOUs with the Coast Guard... and for more than a few days, PDs, SDs, FDs, and EMS were in BOATS... I DO hope that other States & jurisdictions learned from Katrina what DIDN'T work.
@@baronedipiemonte3990we would all hope that would be the case, but that isn’t the reality….. ask me about FDNY comms post 9/11 🤦
Most serious EMROGs train on a weekly basis.
Yup, and honestly, I think that is a lot to ask of people. You can never have enough training, I'm a perpetual student, but I there is also a healthy balance to avoid burnout. We have an idea that is slowly evolving and I think a lot of the people on this channel will be into it..... more info to come on this channel when its established.
Very impressive. I'm a new ham radio operator KF0OQA and I help with my local ARES.
Hey buddy
@@oliverallen5324 there he is! Give us an update if you get sent down there!
One more thing. Work on you comms plan. 1st is with God. Pray, pray, pray.
2nd is .....take those dangs radios out of the can and get on a practice net once a week. Rotate the radios to insure they are charged.
My first was Hugo. As a state game warden, all our towers went down on the coast. No plan, wasn't a ham back then. Now south Carolina has 3 robust free ham systems SCHEART. Many dedicated people make it happen
The station requesting the health and welfare check wasted time not phoneticly pronouncing all the info. Net control asked for repeats a few times to get all info.
Agreed.... Also, just using the standard military phonetic alphabet would be a benefit as well.
How are you going to help, when you can't spell ?
Or is that a local Southern colloquialism ?
😂🤣😂
LMAO, appreciate you calling me out..... I'm definitely not from the South so I cannot speculate on that one.... but it has been corrected. Thanks again!
@@RANTStrategies OMG !
I thought you did that on purpose !
🫲😳🫴
So I was just messing with you !
That is funny !
Glad to help.....?
👍😉
@@sleeve8651 Nah, I wish I could claim that as intentional, but just a complete oversight on my end. Preparing for these courses this week and trying to film a video, edit it and push it out all at the same time just had me rushing faster than I could keep up. I appreciate being called out; no offense taken on my end. Stay safe my friend!
@@RANTStrategies
Cool 👍😎