VERSION TWO: CHAPTER 9 FALCON CONTROL NETWORKING

FAMILY VICTORY NETWORK (FVN) VERSION TWO

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FOURTH MISSION—FULL NETWORKING POTENTIAL; SELF-RELIANT GROUPS OR AREAS

Chapter Nine—FALCON SOPs and REQUIREMENTS

FALCON CONTROL STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (SOP)

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All persons who have bought the Version Two FVN Manual are considered Members. There are five memberships with each Manual for $22.95 or a PDF bought for $10.00 on attached e-mail. Please make sure to fill out the Registration form on the last page of this Manual and mail it to us. If you do not want to be a member or be involved in the network, then please contact us. At least give us a couple of contacts and e-mails. WE SEND OUT NEWSLETTERS, UPDATES, FVN ADDRESS, AND PHONE CHANGES A LOT.

Remember we need your contact information so that we can contact you for alerts, meetings and training. E-mail will be the primary contact mode, with phone calls secondary. Also please stay aware of Current Affairs on a daily basis and check in 10 minutes after the hour on CB Channel 31 or GMRS Channel 7 once a day. Listen to news first on AM radio, NPR on FM 88-92 MHZ., or TV news channels. Contact times: 0710, 0910, 1210, 1510, 1810, 2010 and 2210.

Lesson 63—SETTING UP AREAS OR GROUPS: As new Areas or Groups check in, we need to find Initial Contact Persons (ICP), Area or Group Managers, Assistant Managers and a Trainer for Areas or Groups in the beginning. We hope that you are interested in taking one of these Network Positions. You will need to volunteer a few hours a week to help out. Most likely it will be e-mailing or calling or on the two-way radios contacting or having Area/Group members contact Area Control. Hopefully your ICP will take a staff position.

STAFFING AREAS OR GROUPS: The Area or Group will have the following staff positions: Area or Group Manager, Assistant Manager, Administrator, Current Affairs Specialist, Plans-Operations-Trainer-Communications Leader, Kits Readiness Specialist, Public Relations-Optional, Data Information Specialist and a Communications Supervisor. These positions will be discussed in the next few pages. Other Network positions are communications operators, medical, logistics, water purification, food service, transportation/mechanics, construction/maintenance, security/safety/recon, fire protection, chaplains, teachers, agriculture, sanitation, recycling/salvaging and others.

Areas or Groups will have the following number of total positions: 10, 20 or 30. Areas can also have 50, 100 or 200 positions depending of the population. There can be several Areas in a Metro or District. Examples on how to set up your Area/Group will be on pages 105 to 109.

Family Victory Network Corporate and Network Headquarters: It has 200 positions in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a 200 position hard site west of Sioux Falls, and two 50 position auxiliary sites in Colorado. States or Provinces have 25, 50 or 75 positions depending on their population (see page 109). Metros have 25 positions and must have a population of over 200,000. Rural Districts under 200,000 have five positions (see page 109).

Lesson 64—ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS: Falcon Control will need from Groups, Areas, Districts, Metros, and States a Monthly Report. These can be e-mailed by the 10^th of the month. These reports will include the latest membership roster with positions (confidential), how the CODE PEARL (TEST) , see page 168, recall took place, the current affairs report on local alerts, last month’s completed training, this month’s new training schedule, and how the kits readiness and communications are working. If you take a network position, please be responsible for it.

Lesson 65—COMMUNICATIONS SOP: As said before, e-mails will be primary, then phone calls, and use two-way radios at a local level. Two-ways can be Citizens Band Radio (five watt, 8-15 miles), Family Radio Service (FRS) or General Mobile Radio Service (GMRS). FRS and GMRS are low watt digital services. They only get a few miles in urban areas and up to 15 miles on flat land depending on the radio. The reason to have two-ways is that when disasters strike, sometimes the cell towers can go down or go into emergency call modes only, and land lines can go down also. You will want to contact your family and friends, plus call into Control. FVN assigns CB Channel 31 as the primary channel, and GMRS Channel 7 as the secondary. Businesses can use CB Channel 33 or GMRS Channel 2. Try to get two-ways with a long range of 15 miles or better. Don’t forget chargers or extra batteries. You should try to have a scanner to listen to disaster relief efforts. The State and Metro Annexes should have needed frequencies.

DISASTER EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS SOP: When disaster and evacuations strikes, then extra channels will be used. On evacuation routes Metro Control will designate CB Channel 32 and be split with Channel 31 every five miles to give out information. CB Channel 24 will be used as an INBOUND MESSAGE CENTER and CB CHANNEL 27 will be used as an OUTBOUND MESSAGE CENTER. GMRS Channels 11 and 14 will serve the same purpose. Do not scramble your radios unless there are private messages, and then go to a clear channel again.

RADIO CALL SIGN SOP: Groups/Areas/Districts/Metros/States/Provinces can declare their own call signs. A local school Sports team or an animal is usually the call sign. There are some pre-selected call signs on page 111. Call in about this subject. States usually take a call sign from the State saying, flower or rock, etc. For example California is Call sign “Golden”. Call signs Falcon, Phoenix, Condor, Quebec, Stryker, Rocky and Cobra are reserved per Phoenix One. If there are differences with a call sign, try to work it out using a “qualifier”. Either use a number, color, or other word before a call sign, or use an “extender” after the call sign. Contact Red if needed.

RADIO COMMUNICATIONS: Always be polite. If others are talking on your channel, ask to enter the network. On CB radio ask for a break. An example is “Break Channel 31, Phoenix One”, someone might say, “Go Break” or “Go Phoenix One”. I would say, “Thank you Control, I’m 10-8. Falcon 10, Phoenix One, are you by?” “10-77, on Falcon 10, Phoenix One 10-10, on the side”. Which means that I’m done talking and waiting for other conversation. Use a few 10-codes if needed. With GMRS/FRS check the manual. Otherwise using English works also.

RADIO CODES: There are over 300 radio codes, but we will have about 70 to use and about 30 to use a lot of the time. Try to use those 30 codes and use them one your two-ways.

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