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

[Peter Rossi]

>What about using Citizen Band radios?  CB Radios are still around and work up to a radius of about 3 - 4 miles.  CB channel 9 >was at one time monitored by local authorities and still may be.  If not, at least you may find a trucker willing to help.

I like this idea.

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


On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:29 PM, VM <vmemaillist at gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree with your comments.  These days, people assume that everything went
> global and forget that their neighbors remain local.  Just walking outside
> seems too archaic for most folks these days.
>
> What about using Citizen Band radios?  CB Radios are still around and work
> up to a radius of about 3 - 4 miles.  CB channel 9 was at one time monitored
> by local authorities and still may be.  If not, at least you may find a
> trucker willing to help.
>
>
> On Oct 30, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Peter Rossi 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
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Byron L. Hicks
>>>> Lonestar Education and Research Network
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>>>>
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