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

[Grant Ridder]

If you get the right fcc license, you can [legally] have a GMRS PTT radio
go 30 miles.

-Grant

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Peter Rossi <phpete at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> >>
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