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

[Peter Rossi]

I figured this was the main issue, I just think it's more practical to
expect the aforementioned Grandma to both live within a mile of
someone else, and be able to operate a PTT radio.  If we're talking
about residences over a mile apart, then we're talking about more
isolated areas than north Jersey, which was mentioned.

I have a problem, and I realize it sounds conspiratorial, but I feel
people should try to be a bit more self-sufficient (at least at the
community level) and rely a bit less on the higher and more removed
levels of government to help them deal with their problems, but that's
a completely different discussion, I suppose.

Oh well,

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

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Bill Wichers <billw at waveform.net> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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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