The County EOC will have an ARES unit attached to it. Each city within that
County will have an ARES unit assigned to it, provided there are enough hams in
that area, otherwise they are broken down into sections.
Each section, or ARES unit, will have a set of frequencies assigned to them in
the HF, VHF, & UHF bands.
Again, the modes used on these bands are set up, depending on what the ARES
unit personnel are set up to use.
As for the ARRL, I don't think there's an "Official" band segment designation
for this particular mode, besides, during an emergency, all bets are off and
you can and will use any means necessary to get communications through.
NBEMS - Narrow Band Emergency Messaging System is just what it means, an
Emergency Messaging system! Most likely it's only going to be used during
emergencies.
Being a former AEC or our local city ARES unit, we employed Ham, CB, FRS, MURS,
cell phones... to get the job done and it all worked with relatively few
issues! As long as the ARES, CERT, and RACES personnel are properly trained,
things usually go off without any major hitches.
"I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like
a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
-- Winston Churchill
Rodney
KC7CJO
Clackamas County Electronic Services, Radio Shop
Electronics Tech 1
--- On Fri, 7/31/09, Rik van Riel <r...@surriel.com> wrote:
From: Rik van Riel <r...@surriel.com>
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] NBEMS
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 2:54 PM
Rodney wrote:
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> NBEMS - Narrow Band Emergency Messaging System
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> Is anyone familiar with this mode? What type of equipment is needed?
I have another question along these lines.
How is it used?
How does the ham community coordinate what frequencies
are used for emergency messages?
Is anyone monitoring those frequencies?
Or is this just a new set of protocols on top of a few
digital modulations, without much of a use case yet?
Considering the availability of cheap single-band SDRs,
like softrock, I could see having some frequencies
reserved for NBEMS, and having a few stations in each
region monitoring those frequencies, etc...
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