Section outline

  • Module 7 taught you what to say. This is about the pipe it travels down: every channel into a forecast office, what your words become at the other end, how a directed net works, where the emergency manager sits, and what to do on the day the cell network is not there.

    • Every way in Page
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      A report is only useful if it arrives in time and attributable. Nine ways in, each trading speed against richness against reliability. (30 min)

    • What your report becomes Page
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      The source field is a credibility ranking, it has thirty-one values, and two of the things people assume are on the list are not. (28 min)

    • Amateur radio, and the license you do not need Page
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      Three license classes, four rules that actually matter, the unlicensed alternatives, and the fact this whole lesson is optional. (30 min)

    • On the net Page
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      Directed nets, how to check in, how to break in when it matters, and why every relay makes a report slightly worse. (28 min)

    • The emergency manager, and who owns the sirens Page
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      What an emergency operations center is, how your report reaches it, and the answer to why the sirens did not sound. (30 min)

    • When the network fails Page
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      Cellular fails in severe weather, and there is data. A four-layer plan, a kit, and the sentence about when not to use this app. (30 min)