COMMUNITY PREPAREDNESS GROUP COMMUNICATION OFFICE CPG Policy #5 of 23 October 2014 Revised December 7, 2014 All Group Members Division 1 SECURITY AND COMMUNICATION As we move forward and expand into local CPG groups, the following policies are to help us communicate as needed to accomplish our goals, while practicing common sense and good security to avoid unnecessarily drawing unwanted attention. This means both personal security and raising our awareness of the people and environment around us, as well as what we communicate and how. Ideally, communications will be on a face-to-face basis in a safe space,
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Archives for 1-Communications Devices
Online Security Protection Course
Stu Sjouwerman’s business is setting up online protection and security for large corporations and companies. He has graciously given all members of CPG (Community Preparedness Group) their online security course for free, which they normally sell – this is not for corporations but for individuals. For anyone who wants the course please let me know by sending an email to me with the title “Course Yes” and that’s all, and I will include you in the list. For new members I will include this post link in the new members email and submit the list to his company only
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Weekly Ham Radio Classes from Expert – Free
Note – 30 October 2014 Thursday will be the last class for the year. There will not be any more classes after the 30th until next year. This is a weekly free class that is just starting which goes over everything you need to know about using a Ham Radio. Dave Salyer (a lifetime Ham Radio operator who started in 6th grade) is doing the class for the purpose of forming up a group of Ham Radio operators that will have their own Ham “network” during emergency and disaster situations with pre-arranged procedures of staying in communication. Also to hat
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Two-Way Ham Radio – Baofeng GT-3 Mark II
Here’s the best deal I’ve found on the 2 way radio we have standardized on, Baofeng GT-3 Mark II (2014 version). Comes with lots of extras and ships directly from manufacturer, as far as I know. They are on ebay directly from manufacturer with free shipping for $46.49 Baofeng GT-3 Mark II Lee
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HAM RADIO LICENSE TRAINING & TEST – UPDATED
The Initial License is the Technician License, then later the General License, which gives broader range frequencies and longer distances. Special Note – The Purpose of this license test is to pass it, not necessarily learn anything. After all it is a government test. So have fun number of times over drilling. To Practice and review the test go to Ham Radio License Study. Go through “Read Questions” section first and get familiar with the correct answers. There are 394 questions and answers to read through and look up words. I primarily used Google “What does ____ mean”. Then take
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Emergency Communication Ham Radios
Attached to download is the PDF (Portable Document Format) file the Bob Cook was using to give the overview of our emergency communication options. Right mouse click and save as… Emergency Communications
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