Emergency Quick Card

1. Call 911 first if a phone works.
2. Listen before you transmit. Check your local repeater and the nets below, then 146.520 simplex.
3. Say "Break, break" or "Emergency traffic," then your call sign, and wait to be acknowledged.
4. Give who, what, where and what help is needed. Speak slowly and spell names with phonetics.
5. Ask a station that answers to relay your message if they can reach help and you can't.
6. Write down times, call signs and messages as you go.

In a real emergency, when life or property is in immediate danger and normal communication isn't available, FCC rule §97.403 lets you use any means of radio communication to get help.