Wilderness Protocol 2.0: Drilling Even Deeper on a New EmComm Concept

摘要

Since April, CQ's "Public Service" has been hosting a sort of national forum on the radio amateur's backwoods emergency communications plan known as the Wilderness Protocol. Mike Pulley, WB4ZKA, of Chandler, Arizona, had suggested a sweeping simplification of the present VHF-UHF calling plan and a retool to include the increasingly-popular Family Radio Service (FRS). (SEE: "Time for a Change? 'Wilderness Protocol 2.0,'" April 2013 CQ, page 43.-KI6SN) The fact that Mike and CQ continue to receive feedback on his Wilderness Protocol 2.0 is an indication that lots of outdoors-oriented operators agree that the current initiative isn't working and that, indeed, 2.0 may be preferable.