Communications Plan Annex

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New: 2022-04-16 This is article is on developing the communications plan, as part of your overall emergency plan, for your family or group. The Communications Plan annex is a form fillable document and a companion to the Family Emergency Planning form. The form download, which includes a fillable spreadsheet for programming your radio, is lower on the page. Part of your preparedness planning must include a communications plan.  When triggers are met you need to be able to communicate with your family so you can coordinate which meeting location (also pre-planned) you are going to use and any other relevant information. According as circumstances are favorable, one should modify one's plans.  Sun Tsu No plan survives contact with the enemy. Helmuth von Moltke the Elder P.A.C.E. Is an acronym for Primary, Alternate, Contingency and Emergency.  It is about having backup plans, for communications as well as other plans.  All plans should have ‘back-ups’ and the P.A.C.E. acronym helps develop that.  For communications this means: Primary - the first method, most commonly the day-to-day available systems such as landlines and cell phones. Alternate - this could be text messages (as they use the data stream on networks) to include SMS,...