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

[Alex Rubenstein]

Funny - we do the same. NAC actually has a 460 mhz business band repeater which can reach all of our sites and even some of our houses. We use it extensively in times like this.

And, the DR plan to that is we go simplex if the repeater goes down (which is on UPS and generator, so that is unlikely).



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From: outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org [mailto:outages-discussion-bounces at outages.org] On Behalf Of Peter Rossi
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 5:16 PM
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Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] FEMA, W.H. send victims to Internet

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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