cockpitbob
NES Member
Anyone hearing about Ham radio activities relating to the CA fires? I haven't heard of widespread cell phone outages, so maybe it's not needed there.
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CA Fires and Ham Radio
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ToddDubya
NES Member
Surprisingly I haven't. And a few of the YousTubes guys I follow were very close to (almost in) the fires.
I know Musk sent Starlink units and enabled satellite connections for T Mobile because of outages, so there were some. Probably the biggest outages are where the fires were, which likely also destroyed the ham equipment.
I wonder if the nature of this disaster doesn't lend itself as much to needing radio like a blizzard or hurricane might.
I know Musk sent Starlink units and enabled satellite connections for T Mobile because of outages, so there were some. Probably the biggest outages are where the fires were, which likely also destroyed the ham equipment.
I wonder if the nature of this disaster doesn't lend itself as much to needing radio like a blizzard or hurricane might.
cockpitbob
NES Member
Good point. The devastation is in a handful of areas only a few dozen miles across. There's few civilians in the affected areas and infrastructure still works outside the fire areas. Regional power outages from big weather are a different animal.
RubiconLJ
NES Member
I was listening on WebSDR a couple times to the Santa Clarita antennas, some comments on 70cm that someone was jamming up a frequency with something more powerful than an HT, more than likely that it was a mobile. Other than that no real issues according to them.
