Alarm and Muster

pdf ^ | January 2009 | Tom Fernandez

[Dead Corpse]

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Alarm & Muster
The Modern-Day Call-Tree for Emergency Preperation
Thomas Michael Fernandez, January 2009

Months before the first shots of the American Revolution were fired; colonials had devised and developed what appeared to be a modern day "call-tree." Though communication during the 18^th Century was limited to pen, paper, and horseback, the network they had set up prior to the night of April 18, 1775 was almost as modern as today's communication abilities of cell phone, email, and video.

[Tom Fernandez]

Alarm & Muster Website is Live but less than 1 day old. It has some growing pains currently but is progressing. Below is a communication that was sent to the group earlier today.

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The Alarm & Muster website is now live. It is still in its infancy so you will notice ongoing changes each time you visit. For example, a “members only” forum will eventually be added for our use. Membership will require participation in the A&M call-tree; there will be no anonymous users permitted to register. Also additional pages and locations of the site will continue to be built as it progresses. It is our hope that with our presence on the web, it will not only allow a virtual “muster location” for everyone,, but will also alleviate the increasing pressure accompanied with recruiting.
http://alarmandmuster.com

[RC2]

Suggestion here. In case people loose communication, Internet, phones, etc........break out the CB Radios. I don’t believe there is anyway to block them.

[Dead Corpse]

Yep. We're working that out right now. As it stands, I have 3 levels of communication. Email, cell phone, and Pony Express. Not everyone has CB or even short wave.

It isn't fool proof, but it is better than what we had before this.

[RC2]

Interesting.....I was a member of the Pony Express some years ago.

[Dead Corpse]

Update.

Website up and running.

Online sign up that gets filtered down to the PoC's. Forum coming up.

Another Call Tree test slated for tomorrow.

[Dead Corpse]

I was kinda thinking on a live pony though. Or at least the horsepower under the hood of my vehicle.

[Dead Corpse]

Test Fire #2 went off tonight without a hitch.

Still looking for options for alternative communications methods in the event of phone service interruption or internet outage.

Already discussed short range and citizens band.

Smoke signals? No mountains in MN, so watch fires are kinda useless.

What would work in your area. Think about it...

[DCBryan1]

Henry Bowman checking in.

[Dead Corpse]

God I hope so. We need you Henry...

[DCBryan1]

Of course, when the balloon goes up, I can neither deny nor confirm his existance......but if it goes up BIG, as in CW2....we are all Henry Bowman.

[Dead Corpse]

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

The Body Politic is feeling mighty feverish these days.

[HighlyOpinionated]

A friend and I have talked recently about trying to put together a “Constitution Study Group,”

That's a great idea because too many people have not READ The US Constitution.

The 16th Amendment applies only to Corporations.

Article 1, Section 3 explains the Founding Fathers' desires for Senators but the Progressives conned Congress into passing the 17th Amendment. We MUST work to get the 17th Amendment repealed. And we MUST educate our Legislators that the 16th Amendment as written doesn't apply to the Private Individual. If they want to "change" it . . . they can Abolish it . . . and have a lower National Tax, because there's no reason for US Taxpayers to pay for more Big Government that was added since 1913.

Think about it. We use the 16th Amendment AS WRITTEN and Corporate Taxes will pay for the Military Expenses, and have a SMALL National Sales tax . . . and Washington, DC, has to rewrite their budget because the Founding Fathers didn't intend to pay Congresspeople and Presidents FOR LIFE neither did the Founding Fathers wish to give Congress and the President the "retirement package" to lie for . . . they were supposed to have REAL JOBS before they served, with NOMINAL PAY, their Country for a couple or several years.

If we could just educate the sheeple about the Founding Fathers principles . . . some would still want a free ride.

[George Varnum]

I just got a call from a “Ron” in NH, and I had totally forgotten what “Alarm & Muster” was all about, but it sounded like something that I would have signed up for.

After he explained what it was all about, I asked if there was anyone I was supposed to call. NOpe; apparently I’m the only contact in Maine so far.

A little while later I got around to checking the e-mail and there was a message from him:

“-——Original Message-——
From: Jaque xxxxx
Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:05 PM
To: ronxxx@xxxxx.net
Subject: Re: Test of Call Tree

Ron wrote:

” Hello All,

This is a test of the Alarm and Muster call tree. As soon as you get
this mail please respond back to me and your state leader if you have one.

State leaders please contact your people ASAP and send me your
report when done.

Thanks and good luck,

Ron O.”

To which I responded:

“Hi Ron; Got your phone call before I got to this e-mail.

Who is the “State Leader” for Maine? Do you have one? Do you have a website?
Are you affiliated with a particular Citizen’s Militia group?

“Uncle Jaque”
ME

To which he responded:

“Hi Uncle Jaque,

No, we do not have a state leader for Maine. Would you like the job? There is a web site, Alarm and Muster, which you can get to by just typing it in your browser. Alarm and muster stands by itself, but many members are involved with other groups as well. If you are interested in the State
Leaders position, I will put you in contact with our leadership.

Best regards,

Ron”

Running said search I indeed did come up with the home page, and immediately remembered being there some time ago as soon as I saw the wonderful photos of the landing eagle.

So I e-mailed a reply;

“Oh yeah!; Here it is: Alarm & Muster :: Welcome

Now I remember being there and that’s where I probably signed up. Duh!

I’ll have to read up on it some more and think about that “leadership” thing.
Don’t know as if I’m much of a leader, but by the looks of things I wouldn’t end up leading a massive horde of enthusiastic Patriots any time soon. More likely than not I’d just be leading myself... which can be a challenge in itself!

You might also be interested in this discussion over on the “Free Republic”: Alarm and Muster **
> Regards ~
> “Uncle Jaque”
> ME

So at least I guess we can assume that “Alarm & Muster” is still a more or less viable entity, but apparently I’m about “It” for the State of Maine.

I guess I’ll just stand by and wait to see / hear what else might develop.

Oh; about those CB radios; yes, they can very easily “jam” them, and any other form of electronic communication as well if they want to.

“They” (and God only knows who “They” are) if at all militarily sophisticated, can also precisely locate any source of transmission pretty quickly and if it isn’t a broadcast that they condone or have given permission for, they can make things pretty hot for whoever is broadcasting in a hurry.

If a nuke is set off high enough to spread an EMP over a wide distance, then none of our electronic conveniences will work ever again - to include computers, radios, cell phones, or motor vehicles which, since about 1968 or so, have relied on computer chip control modules - which would be fried by an EMP after which you ain’t goin’ nowhere with it.

Apparently our military (and who knows who else’s) now have directional EMP weapons that can selectively disable electronics from quite a long distance away.

Most CBs have a very limited range to begin with, and are very vulnerable to natural interference such as sunspot activity affecting the ionosphere or “Skip”.
Your best bet for keeping in touch if any radios are working will probably be 11 meter, or HAM radio.
Any group of Survivalists should include at least one licensed and experienced HAM Operator. Setting up a parallel calling tree of HAM Operators in various states might not be a bad idea, as when our infrastructure crashes telephones or e mail won’t be an option.

A lot of HAM enthusiasts have generator back up power supplies so can still operate off the grid at least for a while.

[Dead Corpse]

Yep. I was the first one to sign up from MN, so I was by default the MN PoC.

We have no sponsorship, no real leadership, and only the loosest organization. We are a Patriot's Alert service. Not a militia.

"One if by Land, Two if by Sea..." Paul Revere's... Every one of us.

There may be Washington's and the like in our membership, but leading the battle is not the purpose of the A&M.

Anything to get the word out. Phone, email, CB, HAM, semiphore, wholephore, smoke signals... Whatever it takes.

We could grow to be more, but right now we're just doing the call tree and keeping a weather eye on the horizon.

Had a Call Tree test last night which is why you were contacted.

Welcome aboard!

[sunbrooklyn]

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