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During Times Of Emergency We Utilize The 3-3-3 Emergency Preparedness Plan

Every 3 Hours Check In And Monitor This Zello Channel And Other Over The Air Channels Such As CB-3, FRS-3, GMRS-3, MURS-3 for 3 Minutes.

Access Times (12 Midnight – 3 AM – 6 AM – 9 AM – 12 Noon – 3 PM – 6 PM – 9 PM)

This is the “When, Where, and How” to make radio contact with each other for SHTF. The 3-3-3 Radio Plan was designed for SHTF communications. Versions of it are used by survivalist prepper and emergency communications groups. It is based on the easy-to-remember “Survival Rule of Three”. It is often called a Radio Schedule, or a SKED. It is like the communications equivalent of a Rally Point or Disaster Meet-Up Plan.

ABOUT THE 3-3-3 RADIO PLAN

Here’s how the 3-3-3 Radio Plan works:

Turn on your radio. Every 3 hours. For at least 3 minutes. Channel 3.

WHEN: EVERY 3 HOURS

Always use your Local Time for local area communications with the 3-3-3 Radio Plan. At the “top of the hour”, each 3 hours:

Noon – 3 PM – 6 PM – 9 PM

Midnight – 3 AM – 6 AM – 9 AM

HOW LONG: AT LEAST 3 MINUTES

At the top of every 3rd hour, turn on your radio. Even if you don’t need to make a call yourself, always turn on your radio and listen for calls for at least 3 minutes. If you have sufficient battery power, or if you have not been connected for a while, then you should listen for 15 minutes. You never know if someone may need help or trying to reach you. If you need to check in, make a short transmission and say:

“This is (Name and /or Call Sign) checking in or monitoring.”

ACCURATE TIME KEEPING

Synchronize your watch with other radio operators whenever possible. If you doubt your watch accuracy, compensate by keeping your radio turned on for a longer duration, before and after every 3rd hour. If you don’t have a watch, try listening to an AM broadcast radio station, they always identify their call letters at the top of each hour.

WHERE: CHANNEL 3

Channel 3 is CB-3, FRS-3, GMRS -3, MURS-3 or the Channel 3 – WC3EPG Zello Group Channel.

CB, FRS, GMRS and MURS are the most common types of radios used by survivalists and preppers.

If your organized group has a different designated SHTF channel or Prepper SHTF HAM frequency, you should use it as your 3-3-3 channel.

For example: 146.520 FM Simplex, Freenet 3, or PMR466-CH3.

FEATURES OF THE 3-3-3 RADIO PLAN

1. Easy for everyone to remember the “Rule of Three”.

2. Conserves precious battery life for walkie talkies.

3. Gets everyone on the air at the same time.

4. Sets a schedule of 8 times per day to call each other.

5. Avoids impractical hourly schedules that can be a burden in real-life scenarios.

6. Enables the use of short transmissions for optimum success and security.

7. Three hours between contacts is enough time to rest in a survival situation.

8. A person can walk 8 miles in 3 hours, the practical distance limit of handheld radios over average terrain.

9. 3-3-3 is fully interoperable and compatible with the alternative 3-2-1 plan.

HAM RADIO 3-3-3 RADIO PLAN

Ham radios don’t have channel numbers. They have frequencies instead. A channel is just a specific frequency that has a purpose.

Most hams use 146.520 MHz FM Simplex (No PL) as their 3-3-3 channel. Some organized Prepper Ham groups use 146.420 FM Simplex. Non-aligned Survivalist Hams use 146.550 Simplex as the Bug Out Channel (BOC) and 3-3-3.

The most used local ham frequency could become a 3-3-3 channel for your area. But it probably should not be a repeater channel, because repeaters may cease to function when SHTF! Instead, hams could use Simplex FM on the output frequency of the repeater.

The 3-3-3 Survival Rule is a well-known principle in survivalist training. It commits fundamental skills or procedures to memory. The 3-3-3 Radio Plan builds upon the Survival Rule of 3, otherwise known as the Rule of Threes.

The original source of this article is the RadioMaster Reports site:

https://radiofreeq.wordpress.com