[Scan-DC] DC Emergency Radio Network Looking for Volunteers

[Alan Henney]

DC Emergency Radio Network Looking for Volunteers
Bill Adler, billonline at adlerbooks.com

The DC Emergency Radio Network is looking for volunteer communications
specialists. The DC Emergency Radio Network uses inexpensive FRS and
GMRS radios to communicate during an emergency. These radios, which
have a range of 1/2 to 5 miles, can be purchased at numerous area
stores and are easy to use. FRS and GMRS radios are those little
walkie-talkie type radios you frequently see families with at the
beach or Disneyworld. (And that gives you an idea of how easy they are
to use.) The DC Emergency Radio Network works even when cell phones,
land line phones, and the Internet are down. DCERN Communications
Specialists are the backbone of our emergency communications network:
communications specialists are DCERN members who are certain (or
nearly so) to be on the air during an emergency.

While hundreds of people in the Washington, DC, area are part of the
DC Emergency Radio Network, it's important to have a core of DCERN
members who can ensure that there's a critical mass of people on the
air during an emergency, so that no matter where you are, there will
be somebody to talk to. There's no training needed to become a DCERN
communications specialist, but I do have guidelines that I can E-mail
to you, or which you can download from
http://www.dcradio.org/comm.html. More material will be prepared for
DCERN Communications Specialists soon.

If you're interested in being a DCERN communications specialist, or
learning more about DCERN, please E-mail or call me at 986-9275.
There's more information at http://www.dcradio.org and
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dcern.

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