Radio For the Rest of Us
Date: 09/11/2021
Location: Online Via Zoom!
Lecture Summary
Most of us nowadays depend entirely upon cell-phone and Internet services to stay in touch with our friends and families. These services, in turn, depend upon billions of dollars of technology not to fail. The last few years have seen a dramatic rise in the frequency and intensity of storms, fires, power shutdowns, and other natural and man-made disasters — events which often disrupt these vital communications services, sometimes for days or weeks. With the ever-increasing impacts of climate change and political tensions, these disasters may only become more frequent and more intense — putting us all at greater risk.
Radio For The Rest of Us highlights these cell phone and Internet service vulnerabilities, and how our unconscious over-reliance on cell phones for virtually everything puts us at serious risk. The presentation suggests ways how Ham Radio Clubs might help "the rest of us;" our families, our friends, and our community, stay safer in the face of cell-phone and Internet service failures.
You can view the 25-minute Presentation here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/j49rwlzuipmdk3y/Radio%20For%20The%20Rest-2021-09-02-Generic.mp4
Reference:
Emergency Preparedness