FAQ's

FROM TIME TO TIME, QUESTIONS MOST COMMONLY FORWARDED TO CHURCH HEADQUARTERS WILL BE POSTED HERE. BELOW ARE THE TWO MOST COMMON.

1-What frequency should we use on our stake and storehouse nets ?

The frequency to be used by your stake is selected by the emergency communications

specialist at the bishops storehouse that serves your stake. With his (or her)

background in communications, they will be able to select a frequency suited to

covering the storehouse area that includes your stake. Some, because of their

distance from the storehouse may have chosen their own frequencies on a

stake level to operate on.

2- How do we contact Salt Lake ?

Contact should first be made to appropriate priesthood leaders which will include

bishops, stake presidents, and area authority seventies. They in turn will contact

church headquarters. Area Welfare Managers, and welfare specialists should

also be made aware of emergency situations. Assistance may be requested

by priesthood leaders in contacting Salt Lake by amateur radio or other means

depending on the emergency. Some of the storehouses have church owned

radio equipment with the capability of reaching Salt Lake. Contact may

be made by relaying your message outside of the disaster area and

asking them to contact the church by using the toll free

number 1-800-453-3860. The church operator is on duty 24 hours

a day and will know who to get a hold of in an emergency.

Other than a remote possibility of a need to notify church

headquarters of an emergency, the focus should be on providing

communications capabilities for local priesthood leaders.

Richard Humpherys Church Office Building