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

[Bill Wichers]

The usual range on those is less than a mile so they are of limited usefulness in a large scale disaster. The ham stuff mentioned earlier can use repeaters to cover a good-size area (small city) with handhelds. The shortwave stuff can be setup to cover either a region (using NVIS) or internationally. All of that can be done with simple and hastily erected antennas in a pinch. 

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On Oct 30, 2012, at 5:16 PM, "Peter Rossi" <phpete at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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