Ham Radio - Serving the Community in Times of Need Sierra Madre Emergency Communications Team
Ham Radio - Serving the Community in Times of Need
Amateur Radio is "the only truly fail-safe communications service on the planet Earth" - FCC Riley Hollingsworth
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Members of the team recently provided communications support for the 2008 Santa Anita fire and resulting Mud Slides and earlier, the 2002 Williams Fire.
SMECT - Here to Serve Sierra Madre the Sierra Madre Emergency Communications Team is a group of federally-licensed radio operators (ham radio operators) which functions under the auspices of the Sierra Madre Police Department (SMPD). Its aim is to be an additional Sierra Madre communication service in the event of loca disasters - middle of the night earthquakes, flooding, who knows what.
They practice their communications in the community several times a year by helping with local events - helping with the Mt. Wilson Trail Race, providing additional eyes and ears along the Fourth of July Parade route, patrolling in the dark on Halloween during the Pumpkin Patch affair and keeping an eye out for lost kids, and helping the Chamber of Commerce with communications during the Wistaria Festival. In between times, they meet - either in person or on the ham radio net on the 3rd Tuesday of the month. When it's in person, some of them start with dinner at the Only Place in Town at 6 pm, and continue into the formal meeting. Other months they just haul out the radios at home and have their meeting that way.
Last Update:
June 22, 2008
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