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The Weekend of the Year is coming up.
Did you know a group of volunteers is prepared to assist the Culver City community in the event of a disaster? Would you like to stop by and see what they are up to on Saturday and Sunday, at Fire Station 1, Downtown?
The weekend will be Field Day for Culver City Amateur Radio Emergency Service, CCARES.
Field Day is a 24-hour ham radio emergency station that operates on emergency power supplies only so we can better serve you in the event of a disaster.
Visitors are welcome in the back lot of Fire Station 1, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Saturday night, and on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Visitors will have the opportunity to get on the air, to use ham radio equipment to make contacts.
Culver City Amateur Radio Emergency Service participates in a national deployment to test emergency capabilities. They set up an emergency contact station without electricity, and operate for 24 hours. It is a drill that helps volunteer ham radio operators prepare to handle emergency communications, because “When All Else Fails, Ham Radio Works.”
Using the newest digital communications, voice communications and even historical Morse code, CCARES will be holding a public demonstration of emergency communications with hams from across the USA and Canada during the weekend.
Using only emergency power supplies, ham operators will construct emergency stations at fire stations, parks, shopping malls, schools, and back yards around the country. The slogan for hams is, more than just words. Hams prove they can send messages in many forms without the use of phone systems, internet or any other infrastructure that can be compromised in a crisis. More than 36,000 amateur radio operators across the country participated in last year's event.
Last year during Field Day, CCARES made 734 radio contacts across the U.S. and Canada, an increase of 32 percent from 2011.
Mr. Hente, President of Culver City Amateur Radio Emergency Service, may be contacted at mhente@sbcglobal.net
