[Outages-discussion] FEMA, W.H. send victims to Internet

[Peter Rossi]

Peanut Gallery / Lurker here,

Why has no one mentioned good old fashioned 2way radios?  I know cell
phones have all but replaced them for Joe Average User, but who
doesn't have a set sitting up in the attic?  We charged our EM1000Rs
before the storm and used them both for weather updates, and for
finding other people in our area who needed help by scanning
periodically.  The batteries when fully charged can be made to last
quite a while by using them sparingly, and they're cheap.

Maybe my issue is that I'm of the opinion  that the most important
contact is within your local community, and this wouldn't help with
"official" contact for everyone, but mesh networks can be powerful,
and someone's bound to be connected to an official channel.

Just my $0.02.

-Peter
I'm just this guy, you know?

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Byron L. Hicks
<byron.hicks at tx-learn.net> wrote:
> On 10/30/2012 10:27 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>
>> Yeah, 'cause so many people have short wave gear that operates when
>> power has been out long enough for their smartphone to stop working
>> (or at all) these days.
>
> Well, that is the point of ARRL Field Day:
>
> http://www.arrl.org/field-day
>
> 73 de KD5KLL
>
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