Developing an efficient comms plan for day to day use can take time to do it right. Mapping out (DMR) repeaters involves work, research and a plan. If you don’t take these steps you end up with a mess in your codeplug. This is all of the DMR repeaters in North Carolina, and shows what…
Author: Nick Meacher
Nick Meacher learned preparedness planning from his extensive career in emergency services and emergency management. With over 25 years as an expert planner developing and teaching emergency response programs, Train-the-Trainer programs, developing a variety of exercises to include Emergency Operations Center and Continuity of Operations. He has worked on an All-Hazards Incident Management Team and in Emergency Operations Centers. He is an instructor for Continuity of Operations, Incident Management, Exercise Design and a number of other related courses.
He is a contributing author to several magazines and teaches preparedness, including developing family emergency plans, communications plans, Amateur Radio and other aspects of being prepared for the natural and man-made disasters that occur every year.
He has been a contributor to several Department of Homeland Security documents on encryption in public safety. He has presented at several state emergency management conferences, the American Association of Airport Executives Emergency Management conferences and Public Safety Communications Summits. He has appeared on a number of podcasts.
He runs a volunteer team that provides free Amateur Radio (HAM) classes and tests and has provided almost 2,000 test sessions in four years with over 1,200 new ham radio operators.
Communications Resiliency
New blog/article https://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/communications-resiliency/
UNDERSTANDING COMMUNICATIONS RESILIENCY
Most people do not understand the interdependencies of critical infrastructure on electricity. Even those that do, most people do not comprehend the cascading events and effects that a disaster can have on the infrastructure. Damage to roadways, such as a broken water main, can damage communications cables that typically nearby as the surrounding ground is…
Personal Preparedness Assessment Workbook
What are you really preparing for? What is your level of preparedness or resiliency? What supplies do you have? What skills do you have? This workbook will take you through a process to determine what threats and hazards are in your area and what you are at most risk from. Once you have done that…
Getting The Message Through
Unless you are not on social media or not watching the news you can’t help seeing that there are thousands of people who are without cell service or other means of communication. There are thousands who are not able to communicate to their loved ones that they are OK, or otherwise, and there are families…
PREP-CON
Update to the page on Preparedness Conditions – PREP-CON https://fortunefavorstheprepared.com/preparedness-book-of-knowledge-2/planning/preparedness-conditions-prep-con/
What are you preparing for?
This is a response when asked; “What should I get to be prepared?” or “How do I start?” Well actually if you ask me my response starts off; “It depends,……” Well, here we are, almost a quarter of the way into 2022 and who had WWIII on their threat analysis list? I’m sure through the…
Never Let an Opportunity Go To Waste
We have all heard “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” which is attributed to Winston Churchill. In emergency management we turn that around, always learn from every emergency, we do “after action reports” and “improvement plans” for every event, whether a real event or an exercise. If you didn’t learn anything you weren’t…
Consequences
I read an article about one of the chemical plant fires, didn’t get too much attention as the news cycles are short, onto the next big (or small) political story. But there was something in the article that caught my attention, the ripple effects, as this was a plant that produced nearly all of the…
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