Monday, October 17, 2022

Ham Radio Heats Up on the Forgotten Coast


Perhaps the only silver lining to the very dark cloud that was Hurricane Ian is that a bunch of people around here – "here" being where Ian didn't hit, but was in the crosshairs for a couple of days – have dusted off their Amateur Radio licenses, gotten on the air, and are starting up a local club and a couple of nets.  Here are the particulars to date:
  • Some activity on the 2m FM calling frequency, 146.52 MHz, which is kind of nice.
  • a Tuesday net at 7pm Eastern on 146.450 MHz FM, and
  • a Thursday net at 7pm Eastern on 28.450 MHz USB,  nb: both are accessible with the lowest level license
  • Perhaps most promisingly, a club seems to be forming up.  The initial organizational coffee meeting will be at Carrabelle Junction, 88 Tallahassee St., Carrabelle at 10am Eastern.  Got a license?  Interested in ham radio at all?  Come on in.
So yeah, the wheels are turning.  Finally, one more bit of good news:


On that note, oh look, it's time to go ride.

post-meeting note:  Overall, pretty good results.  A rep from the Franklin County Emergency Operations Center showed, and it looks like we may be able to help out getting some of their non-functional gear up and running.  After that, we'll just try to build on the early successes.

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