Gizzard Stone
Overlander
Greetings,
I recently went to the Land Ops event at Lake Davis, CA. It was part overlanding, part geocaching and part HAM coms. It's basically wargaming a search and rescue operation.
Getting the lay of the land
We went out in teams and were given coordinates to find by Net Control which was a 2m radio station set up at a base camp.
Finding the caches was fairly easy, but we had to communicate our position to NetCon and relay info to the other team with the radios. Way over kill for a casual day trip, but if it was a real SAR operation you would definitely want all your location info and activity logged centrally, and maintaining clear and consistent and communications like that takes practice.
Land Ops Lake Davis
We had to relay coordinates via radio to the other team a couple of times.
Land Ops Lake Davis
It was pretty fun and good training for HAM radio use with multiple contacts managed through net control.
Land Ops Lake Davis
There were also a couple cool rigs.
Land Ops Lake Davis
Land Ops Lake Davis
Land Ops Lake Davis
Check it out, there are upcoming events in Southern California: https://www.meetup.com/LandOps/
-M
I recently went to the Land Ops event at Lake Davis, CA. It was part overlanding, part geocaching and part HAM coms. It's basically wargaming a search and rescue operation.
Getting the lay of the land
We went out in teams and were given coordinates to find by Net Control which was a 2m radio station set up at a base camp.
Finding the caches was fairly easy, but we had to communicate our position to NetCon and relay info to the other team with the radios. Way over kill for a casual day trip, but if it was a real SAR operation you would definitely want all your location info and activity logged centrally, and maintaining clear and consistent and communications like that takes practice.
Land Ops Lake Davis
We had to relay coordinates via radio to the other team a couple of times.
Land Ops Lake Davis
It was pretty fun and good training for HAM radio use with multiple contacts managed through net control.
Land Ops Lake Davis
There were also a couple cool rigs.
Land Ops Lake Davis
Land Ops Lake Davis
Land Ops Lake Davis
Check it out, there are upcoming events in Southern California: https://www.meetup.com/LandOps/
-M