[WestCoastGal]

Great, so far we have Texas and So California. If we can get someone from the northeast, southeast, northwest and places in between we may have something going here. When we do we could freepmail each other the radio frequencies (I guess that's what you call them, I don't know) I am going to check Monday night at their meeting to see if I can get them interested in this.

Anyone else with ham radio neighbors or friends??

[thecabal]

I'm a ham and I'm in Oregon.

[Myrddin]

I'm actually in Pocatello, Idaho. No longer in southern California. When I was in San Diego, the LDS (Mormon) church had a program to help people earn a ham license. Lots of people were successful in earning licenses under those programs. There is an LDS church emergency services network that is pressed into service in cases of a disaster. The local churches practice twice each year to contact all the local members and report back using door to door contacts, messengers on bicycles and ham radio. Test messages a placed with selected members to ensure the practice drill was successful. Typically, the entire exercise takes about 2 hours.

I mention this to assure you that you will have community members around you that have working ham radios and connectivity. I realize the context of the conversion was related to keeping FR members in communication. In a broader sense, you can expect to have access to communications between communities if a disaster strikes.