[FADCA] Digital and Emergency Planning

3 Mar 2002 12:29:55 -0800

Bill, you have a point, and so does Bud, but let's not sacrifice providing a reliable fast capable system for the sake of "it ain't radio." Radio is a tool we have, so is the internet. Let's use them to their maximum capacity, use the most reliable, use the available, use the tool that gets the job done, not ignore resources that exists - that is being done to the detriment of the citizens of Florida and our guests in the current Amateur response to the problem.

Instead of making the response be tailored to the Minimum response possible, we need to bring into plan ALL of the tools we have and, when we can, and where we can, USE the Multimillion Dollar infrastructure that exists.

Russ

On Sun, 03 March 2002, n4xeo wrote:

> 
> 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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