[FADCA] Digital and Emergency Planning

Sun, 03 Mar 2002 19:57:31 +0000

At 11:01 AM 3/3/2002 -0800, [email protected] wrote:
>I just sent Bud a private message. There is no need for a radio at the 
>SEOC if the communications travels by internet from the FIRST INTERNET 
>CONNECTIon out from the effected area. ONLY the effected area requires 
>radio communications.

This is TRUE Russ, BUT if the internet is SO busy that their pipe is full 
that can and will slow down their connections to the point that they might 
just take "our digital" off line. This would be one of the biggest reasons 
that we would need radio. What ever it would take to get the foot in the 
door is what needs to be done.

I'm not a big fan of mixing internet and radio as most of you well know. 
With the group here, I wouldn't have to worry that the radio would follow 
the internet!!!  What needs to be kept on the mind at all times is that the 
internet is what took out packet in the first place. Not that the users 
went away as much as the sysops just replaced their link with the internet 
when a radio died.

Like I said above, internet is fine to get it going (foot in the door), but 
RADIO must be in the plan from the start. Think about how hard it is to 
maker a call on a holiday when people are trying to call their loved ones. 
It is hard to do. Think about what the phone system WILL be like when there 
is a major problem!

The internet will be nice to show what we can do, but the radio MUST follow 
at that time!

>Now, IF THE SEOC HAS NO TELEPHONES OR INTERNET CONNECTION, yes a radio at 
>that point would be needed.
>
>What we have to work on is getting the communcications out of the effected 
>area to the first internet connection and work with the SEOC to use their 
>internet connection to receive and send  traffic into and out of the SEOC 
>if HAMS are providing the "Final Mile."

Like I said above. What happens when there is NO internet when the system 
is so over loaded. You have to remember that most of these agencies are 
counting on there cell phones as their backup and the sites are connected 
by phone line most of the time.

>Russell Oder

A very BIG snip!!!
Please snip out the older parts of the message so that things are smaller 
to download.

I'm glad to see that we are getting people using the list!!

73, Bill N4XEO

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