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1. Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2017 15:58:57 EDT Stephen Michael Kellat
   @bob @hattiecat About 50 radio operators are being recruited to assist American Red Cross shelter operations in PR passing lists via RTTY.
   1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2017 16:22:00 EDT lnxw48a1

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      @alpacaherder @bob @hattiecat This was also what brought CB radio to mind. Back in the day, a group called REACT used to monitor CB channel 9 in order to provide local response to emergencies and smaller-scale disasters. There was a smaller group called ALERT which did the same thing.
      1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2017 16:29:16 EDT lnxw48a1

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         @alpacaherder Anyway, it started me wondering whether local CB operators would have enough disaster-response knowledge to be able to provide some temporary local communications for things like reconnecting families. (My guess: not likely.)
         1. Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2017 16:31:15 EDT Stephen Michael Kellat

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            @lnxw48a1 Possibly not.  REACT is part of NVOAD.  The hams being recruited would be passing shelter lists to ARC central to collate & check.
      2. Stephen Michael Kellat (alpacaherder@quitter.se)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2017 16:30:09 EDT Stephen Michael Kellat

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         @lnxw48a1 @hattiecat @bob The rules don't allow data traffic on CB. RTTY is radioteletype which counts as such. CB is authorized voice-only.
   2. Hattie Cat (hattiecat@quitter.no)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2017 19:12:18 EDT Hattie Cat

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      @alpacaherder @bob @hattiecat The local
      amateur radio operator network is being used but has only 2000 operators and that doesn't help most people communicate. Bluetooth chat apps exist but I never saw the point of those - if you're in Bluetooth range you can talk directly! Or am I missing something? What's needed is a way to establish ad hoc mesh in an emergency with the existing backbone unavailable.