Subject: Announcing Cascadia Coastal Community HAM Net
Source: Dr. Ralph J. Garono, rg*****@**********************on.org
[editor note: first and third Thursday of each month at 13:30 Pacific time
on Brandmeister ‘Western Oregon’ TG 31412. The nets will start in March 2025]
Coastal communities in the Pacific Northwest have a lot in common. In
coastal Cascadia many people live in small towns or rural areas, which are
often isolated by terrain and everyday radio / cellphone dead zones.
Natural disasters don’t stop at jurisdictional boundaries. During times of
disaster and service interruption, the usual transportation corridors to and
from the coast may be cut off – the nearest help may be located in an
adjacent coastal community.
The Cascadia Coastal Community Amateur Radio Net was established in to
facilitate ongoing interaction between coastal groups (or agencies)
interested in emergency or disaster-related communication. The purpose of
the net is to share information and to facilitate communication between
coastal communities in AK, WA, OR and CA in order to build community
awareness, prepare for interruption of services and disasters, and to
enhance overall community resiliency.
Net participants are those interested in sharing information on upcoming
emergency or disaster-related training events and opportunities (posted to a
calendar on cascadiacoastalcoalition.org http://www.cascadiacoastalcoalition.org
as well as summaries of actual events. Starting in March 2025, the net will
be run on the first and third Thursday of each month at 13:30 Pacific time
on Brandmeister ‘Western Oregon‘ TG 31412.
This is a directed net. Check-ins will share information with other net
participants. The net is open to all licensed amateurs who have an interest
in emergency or disaster-related communications especially those associated
with ARES/ RACES, Hospital Communication groups, Medical Reserve Corps,
Community Emergency Response Teams, and neighborhood groups.
Although there are a few DMR repeaters in our area of interest, most
participants can use hotspots to access the DMR network. In addition to the
net, the Western Oregon talk group 31412 may be used as an evaluator
back-channel during large-scale training events (e.g., Disaster Airlift
Response Team drills, Cascadia Rising, IronOR). If you need help with DMR
let us know. We also have a few DMR radios and hotspots to loan out for
folks to become familiar with DMR amateur radio.
For more information see –
cascadiacoastalcoalition.org/ccc-events-2
