Placentia RACES (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service) is a volunteer group of ham radio operators that offer their time, equipment and skills as a backup source of emergency communications for the community in case of a disaster.\u00a0 The dirty little secret is this.\u00a0 If a major disaster takes place, it is expected that cell phones will not work!\u00a0 Cell phone texting may work but messages may experience long delays.\u00a0 It is also possible that land line home phones might not work.\u00a0 Two way radio communications has proven to be very reliable if the equipment is properly maintained, batteries charged and backup power is planned for.\u00a0 Good emergency communications between city hall and the people dealing with problems in the field requires quick, reliable, communications.\u00a0 This all might sound rather intimidating but we are here to help you if you have a ham radio license.\u00a0 Please come to one of our meetings and check us out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Placentia RACES (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service) is a volunteer group of ham radio operators that offer their time, equipment and skills as a backup source of emergency communications for the community in case of a disaster.\u00a0 The dirty little secret is this.\u00a0 If a major disaster takes place, it is expected that cell phones…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-37","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n