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What do we think about a CERT community (lemmy.radio)
submitted 2 months ago by ascend@lemmy.radio to c/lemmy@lemmy.radio
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CERT stands for Community Emergency Response Team, which is a program that trains volunteers in basic disaster response skills to assist their communities during emergencies.

Ham radio operators are really useful to CERT and at least in the community I joined with my local city they really recommend to get into ham radio, so from my perspective of what I've learned locally is they go hand in hand.

I know this server rules say communities should be amateur radio related and I think it goes pretty well together, but would also like general CERT discussion for example what people keep in their CERT backpack and what events they have participated in etc beyond just the radio aspect of it. I feel the CERT community would fit nicely on lemmy.radio

https://www.arrl.org/emergency-communications-field-instruction

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[–] K3LOE@lemmy.radio 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could it be a general “community preparedness” umbrella community that includes CERT but could also include, say, mutual aid radio activities?

[–] ascend@lemmy.radio 0 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's a great idea!

[–] BenDoubleU@lemmy.radio 0 points 1 month ago

I'm definitely not opposed to any community that would be used for emergency radio communications like ARES or RACES. I have to say, I don't know enough about CERT in general, but if the community focused on the radio aspect of preparing and emergency services. I say give it a go!

2 things:

  • Rule 5: Community creation should be amateur radio related
  • Community creation can be done by anyone with a lemmy.radio account

With those in mind, I say go for it!

~ Ben (w0odl)