CQ like calls (to see who is out there) should not take place until after 4 minutes after the hour. Priority transmissions should begin with the LITZ (Long Interval Tone Zero or Long Time Zero) DTMF signal for at least 5 seconds. A ham in a remote location may be able to relay emergency information through another wilderness ham who has better access to a repeater. The Wilderness protocol (see page 101, August 1995 QST) calls for hams in the wilderness to announce their presence on, and to monitor, the national calling frequencies for five minutes beginning at the top of the hour, every three hours from 7 AM to 7 PM while in the back country.
WHAT DOES RADIO SILENCE MEAN MANUAL
The Wilderness Protocol is now included in both the ARRL ARES Field Resources Manual and the ARES Emergency Resources Manual. The Wilderness Protocol recommends that those stations able to do so should monitor the primary (and secondary, if possible) frequency every three hours starting at 7 AM, local time, for 5 minutes starting at the top of every hour, or even continuously. Silence saves you from looking like a fool - because if your silence is not enough for people to realize that something is wrong - will your words even matter? Rania Naim is a poet and author of the new book All The Words I Should Have Said, available here.Amateur radio Wilderness Protocol Sometimes it’s better than crying, better than yelling and better than screaming. Sometimes there’s really nothing you can say or do. Silence is the worst, but sometimes it says it all. It’s the only way to quiet the noise in your head. Sometimes silence is the only way to figure out what’s going on inside you. When you’re going through something no one understands, when your heart is breaking over a relationship you were never in, when you want to give up but you have a life waiting for you to make things happen, when nothing makes you feel good but you have to be grateful for it all. You don’t want to talk about them because you want to protect them from what people might say, you don’t want anyone to tell you that you should forget about it or it’s not worth your time. You say nothing when someone mentions their name, you say nothing when someone talks about their love life. So you watch them in silence, you miss them in silence, you think about them silently and you pretend like you don’t want them. Loving someone so much but you can’t say anything because you don’t want to lose them, you don’t want to push them away, you don’t want things to be awkward if they don’t feel the same way. Sometimes silence is better than knowing that there is no chance. Silence is tough but sometimes the truth is tougher. Sometimes silence is the only answer to someone who is unaware of the pain they caused you, it’s the only answer to someone who doesn’t care to know if you’re okay. Not knowing what to say, not knowing if it will make a difference, not knowing if it will make matters worse. Silence is ignorance and sometimes ignorance is bliss. Silence sometimes saves you from further rejection or hearing things you don’t want to hear. Silence is better than sounding crazy, weak or irrational.
It’s painful to talk about what hurts, it’s painful to tell someone that they broke your heart and it’s painful to show someone how vulnerable you are and how much they mean to you when you’re not sure what kind of reaction you’ll get and when you’re not sure what you really mean to them.