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How West Coast is preparing for big overdue earthquake on Alpine Fault (www.newshub.co.nz)

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[–] cloventt 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“West Coast Emergency Management have deployed StarLink [wifi internet] devices right throughout our district, to all our emergency operations centres, but also various marae and community centres. They've also beefed up the UHF radio so the older-school radios, making sure those networks are still available and they're looking at HF, which is probably again an older technology able to communicate beyond the region."

Good to see they’re taking the challenge of post-quake communication seriously. And that they’re looking at HF as an option, very cool.

[–] Axisential 2 points 1 year ago

I volunteer with local LandSAR and we still have HF sets in active use - they're critical for comms in the backcountry when weather prevents a heli dropping a VHF repeater in. Range is astonishing in the right conditions.