Take with you
Radio card
Print this and tape it inside the lid of your kit, or next to the radio. It is the whole communications plan on one page.
Listen first
- Emergency broadcast
- KBYU 89.1 FM — emergency information for this area. Repeated on 89.5.
- KSL 1160 AM
- Utah’s statewide emergency broadcast. Named in the ward’s own preparedness notes rather than the regional plan — if one is silent, try the other.
FRS — the radios most families have
- Mapleton Utah North Stake
- Sector 9 · Channel 1
- Mapleton Utah Stake
- Sector 10 · Channel 2
- Sector 8–10 CERT
- Channels 1, 2, and 4, as directed
- Block captains — ward
- Channels 8–14, assigned by the stake Ours: to confirm
Ham — stake and city
- Springville City EOC
- 145.750 simplex — civil authorities to sector/stake command posts only
- Church headquarters
- 145.370 via Lindon Bishop's Storehouse — duplex, simplex if the repeater fails
- Roll calls
- Multi-region net Tuesdays 8:00 p.m. · Springville City first Thursday, 9:00 p.m.
Rules
- No privacy sub-tones. They blank the channel for everyone who could help you.
- Don't use GMRS channels 15–22 except licensed family traffic.
- Sectors 1 & 8 and Sectors 2 & 9 share channels — keep traffic short.
- If radio fails, send two people together with the message in writing.