Minyon Resilience Network
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News and Updates about MRN
Upcoming:
22 November – Home readiness 9-noon please encourage people in your area to attend, it will be run by Jean from Plan C and is really valuable.
22 November PM – area contact radio training Please put this in your diary as we need all of us there on this day to understand our new emergency protocols and receive radios and first aid kits. Thanks Simon for working on the protocols.
Pre-Xmas Solar and batteries will be installed at the hall so plenty of good things happening. We will be ready for the months ahead.
Portable Starlink dishes have been installed in Bangalow, Federal, Goonengerry, Mullumbimby, South Golden Beach, Upper Coopers Creek and Wilsons Creek, Byron Shire Council staff say.
The backup infrastructure is to ensure people have access to essential and life-saving communications when mobile and NBN networks fail.
The Starlink systems and associated equipment are on loan for free for two years thanks to funding from state and federal governments.
The Minyon Falls Rd repeater has been installed thanks to Siddh and Dave. (Photo attached)
First aid training completed – well done everyone who braved the cold and got their skills up to date.
A defibrillator has been donated to MRN to be placed at the hall and will be installed outside later this year.
New equipment purchase including mobile Bluetti batteries, generator for hall and community use, first aid kits, UHF- 2 way radios, 2 repeater stations to expand our radio coverage, thanks Siddh & Simon.
August
Sandy is a new area contact on Fox road and has started a new WhatsApp group for her section of the road. Welcome Sandy.
27th Sept
Psychological First Aid program went really well with 11 attending – thanks to Jen for getting the training scheduled. The course was excellent – run by Jean from Plan C. Lots of people from repentance creek rd and Emerson Rd including Mary-Lou. (Photo attached)
28th Sept
Simon and Andrew installed Starlink at the hall – thanks to Ian for equipment and prep work..
16th Oct
Andrew, Dave and Siddh worked with John Nolan to test the first repeater (seen in pic) and to locate the second repeater site (which we think will now be on Emersons). This will give us good coverage from the top of Upper Coopers Creek to the bottom near the RC Hall, and over to Emersons and up Fox and Maso Roads, as well as across to Rosebank. Coverage will have a few black spots which are unavoidable, but this network will give us excellent UHF radio range for our Area Contacts across the MRN region.
25th Sept
Andrew spoke at the Rosebank Primary School end of term performance to all the parents, seeking new Area Contacts in Rosebank and handed out the flyer created by Mod attached (thank you).
Ian and Lisa also supported this event.
Past Events
UHF Radio Repeater Location Test
Funding was given for us to host and facilitate a test for locating a Repeater Tower to see where it would and (importantly) wouldn’t reach.
This was well attended by our team of Area Contacts who drove around their respective areas testing various locations and marking Clear / Scratchy / Blackspot on a worksheet.
These locations were also mapped using What3Words, which is an ingenious location system that is worth knowing about (see the link here for the repeater test location).
A grant is being sought to then pay for and install this repeater and also provide dedicated handsets to our Area Contacts for improved resilience communications.
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