Testing the Tsunami Warning Sirens 29/09/2024 - remember this is the perfect time to check your emergency kits, make an emergency plan if you haven't already and test your smoke alarms / replace the batteries. Very loud sirens and caught some people unaware by the looks on their faces :) Great work Christchurch City Council NZ Civil Defence Fire and Emergency NZ #tsunamiwarning Tsunami #preparedness #emergencypreparedness
Well it was a first today with just a QRP low power radio 3-5W and a home made wire antenna but the Alpine Fault Net went off well. I managed to be heard and transmitted my SITREP to alpine fault net control. The purpose of this net is for amateur radio operators to provide a link in nationwide communications, off grid independently of mains power, when disaster strikes and utilities like power and cell phones and internet go down. This was a lot of fun and I learnt a lot. Hoping for better signals next time with the lessons from today. For power I used a lithium power-pack charged from a solar panel on my van. It would allow me to operate for days without sun a d longer with sun shine.
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Starting to snow very heavily at Oxford and the roads are going to get very dangerous shortly.
What does a check in sound like on the HF Radio Charitable Trust Alpine Fault Net Sound like? This is Net Control talking to one of the participants and gather all the call signs first then running through the check ins. Very cool stuff indeed.
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Fantastic gear for both the outdoors and disasters three personal Locator beacons will work when cell services are down. Quick video testing my beacon and using the ham radio to check the signal to the satellite. We'll worth having in your kit.
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Well the giveaway draw for Series 7 in our Build your Own Survival Kit or Disaster Kit has been done and the video is up ready to view. Congratulations to our three winner. Please keep an eye out on your DMs or this post, if you cant see the message then please drop us a line as sometimes it does not come through. Series 8 will be an overview of the whole series and the draw for that will be for a whole kit based on the Series we have done :)
Putting together your own Disaster and Survival Kit - Series 6 First Aid and Hygiene
Congratulations to John and Casey on being the winners of this most recent give away draw. Please drop us a line and we will get these kits out to you ASAP. The next series will be going up tomorrow evening along with a video introducing the next give away in the series. :) thanks for bearing with us during the hiatus and issues with the bots - until the next post keep safe out there and keep prepared.
@followers Congratulations to Gayleen, Martin, Suzanne and Lert Info, I will be in contact shortly to get your postal addresses to get these radios off to you all, as well as some sample Emergency Food Rations. Post Number 5 on Emergency Lighting is about to go up. As always drop a comment and be in the draw to win, and please share it as far and as wide as possible so we can get people educated and prepared for when disaster next strikes.
Congratulations to our Winners in Series 3 on putting together a Basic Survival Kit / Grab Bag / Disaster Preparedness Kit. Angela Mary Van Dam, Annette Wood and Cathie Withington, please check if you can send us a message with your details, as a lot of the profiles are locked :) Next Infographic is going to be up shortly, a basic one but an important one :)
