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- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
Installing ActiveAlert application on Android phone
Instructions for installing ActiveAlert application on Android Phone. – Open the Google Play Store – Push the search on-screen button (it...
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- Mar 14, 2022
- 1 min
Installing ActiveAlert application on iPhone
Instructions for installing ActiveAlert application on iPhone. – Open the App Store – Press Search (bottom of screen) – In the search box...
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- Mar 5, 2022
- 2 min
RESPONDING TO ACTIVEALERT ALERTS
USJSAR uses a smart phone app named ActiveAlert to notify members of pages. Instructions for installing and customizing the app are...
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- Mar 5, 2022
- 3 min
COLD WEATHER PREPARATION
As you guys may have noticed, the weather is getting colder and our last few missions have been on the chilly side. Now is a good time to...
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- Mar 3, 2022
- 3 min
NAVIGATION EXERCISE IN GATE 5 AREA
I’ve put together a Navigation Exercise in the Gate 5 area. It uses the Avenza Maps smart phone app to help you locate the checkpoints....
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- Mar 3, 2022
- 1 min
How to change the coordinate system Avenza uses from UTM’s to Lat/Long Degrees.decimalInstructions
Instructions: Note that we’re currently displaying coordinates in UTM format. Tap on the coordinates on the bottom of the screen....
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- Feb 27, 2022
- 1 min
ROPE TRAINING VIDEO’S
View the following videos to learm more about MainLine Setup: https://youtu.be/ImGN9-LqhiM Belay Setup: https://youtu.be/dXSBOXorAIY...
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- Jan 5, 2022
- 1 min
COMMON LOCATION NAMES / TRAILHEADS
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iRPsJw9Hu6J6PJOHlSzdnpJDrmKUOXrtL2Ehcteg5iE/edit?usp=sharing It’s a work in progress that I would...
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- Nov 3, 2021
- 2 min
MAP COORDINATE SYSTEMS
There are many Map Coordinate Systems in use, but for SAR you are likely to only encounter two: Latitude/Longitude in DD.th format UTM’s...
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- Dec 27, 2020
- 1 min
PHYSICS FOR ROPING TECHNICIANS
From the forward: “This text has been developed to assist roping technicians in gaining an understanding of the fundamental principles of...
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- Dec 24, 2020
- 2 min
RADIO CHANNEL UPDATES
On Dec 16th 2020 many of the SAR radio’s were reprogrammed, which has changed the location of the channels we use. First a bit of...
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