2014 TEOTWAWKI Readiness Exercise
August 22nd, 23rd, and 24th (Fri – Sun)
What would YOU do?
Do you have a plan?
Have you practiced your plan?
We will be setting up a 3-day, Scenario-based disaster/preparedness exercise. A chance for you to practice T-REX FLYER:
- Your personal, family, group SHTF plan
- The AmRRON Communications Plan
- Grid-down emergency plan
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- Participate in all or part (one day, two days, three days?). It’s a chance for you to implement YOUR plan.
- Follow along with the scenario and timeline (To Be Released – stand by).
- Develop and follow your own, customized scenario as a smaller part of a bigger exercise.
- Practice your personal, family, or group communications plan
- Bugging out? Bugging in?
- If you have a loose network of like-minded families and retreat groups in your local area, feel free to develop some of your own ‘micro-scenarios’ and developments between yourselves, while participating in the bigger scenario at the same time. Just keep it legal, safe and sane!
This is a ‘hypothetical’ Senario/Timeline designed to accomplish several goals.
1. Provide an opportunity for individuals, families, and groups to implement your SHTF (Stuff Hits The Fan) plan, while thousands of others are practicing at the same time, following the same scenario.
2. Practice what you’ve planned, assess your readiness level, identify weaknesses in your personal self-reliance preparations, and set new goals to address shortcomings, and establish a set of priorities for improving.
3. Send, receive, and monitor communications. There could be information that could affect you! Would you be able to receive it? Could you send reports out to others to keep fellow patriots informed?
NOTE: AmRRON operators will be following the Communications SOI (Signal Operating Instructions) during the T-Rex Exercise. Local groups are also encouraged to conduct their own, internal communications plan, as well as monitoring/participating in the scheduled AmRRON Nets.
4. There will be no internet chatrooms, Facebook or other social media updates, or any other ‘grid-up’ communications networking during T-Rex, except during those grid-up timeframes outline in the Scenario & Outline. The exception, of course, is if you hear otherwise through the AmRRON Network.
This exercise is an opportunity for YOU to implement YOUR family/group plan. Whether you anticipate bugging in, bugging out, activating your retreat group, walking home on foot, or traversing your community developing SPOT Reports, it’s a time for you to practice.
VOLUNTEERS WANTED: We’re asking anyone with communications capabilities who are willing, to let us know if you would like to act as an Initiating Station or a Receiving Station, or both. These are stations to which (and from which) messages will be passed, from one point (Point A) to another (Point B). If you volunteer to be an initiating station, we will email you the week prior with the message/traffic you are responsible for getting out. The AmRRON Network will be passing your traffic until it gets delivered to the intended Receiving Station.
Download the PDF by clicking below:
Scenario/Timeline PDF
MORE TO COME, SO STAY TUNED!
It say Friday Aug. 10th? is this a build up to start on Aug 22 or is it just a typo?
That was a typo. It’s fixed and the updated PDF is now uploaded. Thanks for bringing this to our attention. …it was a test. You passed!
1. I am still showing August 10th when I download the PDF. I get it is 22 August and that is what I have told my unit.
2. Will repeaters be assumed to be operating even after cell phone towers go down?
Tim I know the repeater I use in Houston has solar back up.
I live WAY outside the American Redoubt region (Ohio), but I would like to participate in the T-Rex exercise by listening for transmissions from AMRRON operators – I have a small shortwave receiver and I would like to see if I can pick up any transmitted messages. I have searched all over the web site and can’t find a list of the frequencies people will be transmitting on. It’s kinda hard to listen if I don’t know where to tune the radio!
Is there a list of frequencies or maybe one special frequency that will be used for this exercise? I am totally confused. Also, although there is very little chance of catching anything, I will be monitoring channel 3 on my handheld CB radio, just in case (Using that 3-2-1 technique). I am not an AMRRON member but I plan to join soon and thought this exercise would be a good start. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
AmRRON/TAPRN is a nationwide network with radio operators in every state and Canada. The frequencies used are the same as what is listed in the regularly-scheduled AmRRON Net Schedules.
However, as in a real-world nationwide disaster situation, communications operations during T-Rex will take place in accordance with the Communications SOI.
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