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July 5, 2022 3:38 pm

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This ham radio team set up to support a command post staffed by members of the Community Emergency Response Team (CERT). They are using one of the group’s portable communications caches (PCCs, in the yellow waterproof case) that has been packed with a range of radio communications capabilities, including email over ham radio using software called Winlink. — VashonBePrepared: When all else fails,...

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