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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