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il Padrino Ute · 07-30-2008, 01:32 AM

Not sure how I missed this thread, but I'm glad to see that it hasn't affected my friends here that live in that area too much.

I've yet to experience anything stronger than a 4.something. Strong enough to be felt, but not enough movement to be cause for alarm.

FMCoug · 07-30-2008, 01:35 AM

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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Seems like you need relatives to also have HAM equipment so that you can communicate with them.

I don't know if the church is doing this everywhere, but in one of my stakes in Texas, part of The Emergency Preparedness plan was for each ward to have a certain # of ham certified people who all were on teh same channels, etc. The idea being this would be a network of everyone across the stake.

They had classes to get certified and once a month they had an evening where they would all get on and chat.

TripletDaddy · 07-30-2008, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by FMCoug

I don't know if the church is doing this everywhere, but in one of my stakes in Texas, part of The Emergency Preparedness plan was for each ward to have a certain # of ham certified people who all were on teh same channels, etc. The idea being this would be a network of everyone across the stake.

They had classes to get certified and once a month they had an evening where they would all get on and chat.

Our stakes does this, as does the Newport Beach stake when we lived there. Sunday night was HAM chat. I wonder if it is really common across the country? It is a good idea.

I was just asked to get HAM certified and be an emergency coordinator for my neighborhood zone. The equipment cost isnt too bad and the classes are free.

After today, I am much more motivated to go to the classes.

creekster · 07-30-2008, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

Our stakes does this, as does the Newport Beach stake when we lived there. Sunday night was HAM chat. I wonder if it is really common across the country? It is a good idea.

I was just asked to get HAM certified and be an emergency coordinator for my neighborhood zone. The equipment cost isnt too bad and the classes are free.

After today, I am much more motivated to go to the classes.

Our stake was going to but i have no idea if they ever followed through or not.

Detroitdad · 07-30-2008, 02:32 AM

Earthquakes are utterly terrifying and I hope that ya'll are okay and that there will not be too many aftershocks.

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Detroitdad Resident Jackass Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Roswell, New Mexico Posts: 1,846	Earthquakes are utterly terrifying and I hope that ya'll are okay and that there will not be too many aftershocks.