{"id":74,"date":"2017-10-19T11:02:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/?p=74"},"modified":"2017-12-10T11:18:53","modified_gmt":"2017-12-10T19:18:53","slug":"great-california-shake-out-earthquake-drill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2017\/10\/great-california-shake-out-earthquake-drill\/","title":{"rendered":"Great California Shake-Out Earthquake Drill!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was a quick checkin on the W6SF repeater from Folsom, CA today. In participation with\u00a0The 2017 International ShakeOut Day, today Oct. 19, 2017 at 10:19am, we had a QST to check in to the drill. Most checkins had “no damage” but there could have been mock damage appended with “this is a drill” at the end of the transmission.<\/p>\n

Hitting the 147.165+ repeater (located by Fiddletown, CA some 30 miles away) from Folsom was difficult on my 5 maximum watts with mobile-mount antenna in a business parking lot. My radio tests 10 minutes before the drill got reports back of “no copy” with lots of noise, low audio. I had to drive around a bit to find a higher vantage point to hit the Sierras on my limited QRP.<\/p>\n

The whole drill was quick, lasting only about 7 minutes. It was great to participate.<\/p>\n

“Kilo Foxtrot Six Uniform Juliet Sierra, Folsom, No damage.”<\/p>\n

“Acknowledging KF6UJS in Folsom, no damage.”<\/p>\n

More final calls for checkins then that was it! The end was a recorded announcement and NZ6Q closed the drill and returned the repeater to normal operation. (Apologies, I only managed to record the end, was too distracted.)<\/p>\n

This exercise got me to thinking about what I need for a truly portable EMCOMM rig. A simple mag-mount fixed antenna, and especially with low watt HT (without charger, no less!), is hardly sufficient for the pockets of the valley. I might need to look into a dedicated portable mobile rig that can bump up the tx power, and an antenna that I can raise (e.g. foldable that can deploy on a stand) for clearer more reliable communications.<\/p>\n

So if I were stuck at the office during a catastrophe, I think I’d have to resort to other closer repeaters to reach out– and miss out on my own club’s traffic until I could move to a different location. Stuff to think about and plan for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was a quick checkin on the W6SF repeater from Folsom, CA today. In participation with\u00a0The 2017 International ShakeOut Day, today Oct. 19, 2017 at 10:19am, we had a QST to check in to the drill. Most checkins had “no damage” but there could have been mock damage appended with “this is a drill” at the end of the transmission. Hitting the 147.165+ repeater (located by Fiddletown, CA some 30 miles away) from Folsom was difficult on my 5 maximum watts with mobile-mount antenna in a business parking lot. My radio tests 10 minutes before the drill got reports back of “no copy” with lots of noise, low audio. I… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[18,33,30,31,32],"class_list":["post-74","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emcomm","category-radio-club","tag-club","tag-drill","tag-emcomm","tag-preparedness","tag-training"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9naFX-1c","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":379,"url":"https:\/\/ad6dm.net\/log\/2018\/02\/cert-basic-final-exercise-2-10\/","url_meta":{"origin":74,"position":0},"title":"CERT Basic Final Exercise 2\/10","author":"AD6DM","date":"February 10, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I had the chance to be a \"survivor\" of a mock disaster for the Sacramento Metro Fire Station 21 CERT Basic class disaster simulation today. 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