[FADCA] Re: Fw: <No Subject>

Fri, 14 Feb 2003 13:05:45 -0500

Doug, I think it is an area we need to work on to be ready to support it's
use as well as use it as available.  I read Chuck's note ("Can you get a ops
manual and how does the system switch data? Sounds like a port on a FPAC
LINUX switch at each site may be able to put this system to very good use to
all of our advantage.") also and think it should be persued. It looks like
there should be away to tie the resources together to use the system that is
available and be transparent to the Emergency Management staff. They just go
about their normal business in support of a disaster response and which
every system is operational from their location would be used automatically
without the users intervention.

Russ
N4KOX
----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Christ" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 10:10 AM
Subject: Re: [FADCA] Re: Fw: <No Subject>

> As the Communications Officer for the DeSoto County Emergency Management
> Department, I have had numerous talks with John Fleming of FDEM. The
current
> ESATCOM system, which there is one located at every EOC in each county,
has
> a serial port just sitting there collecting dust. I can't remember the
> connection speed, either 9600 or 19.2, but John indicated to me that this
> could be used to pass traffic with two years ago. The late Gary Arnold was
> trying to set it up to pass packet type connections for BBS style
forwarding
> but was having difficulties.
>
> The entire state used these ports until they added TCP/IP ports to the
DIU's
> at each site last year. As far as the TCP/IP goes, yes, there is a
satellite
> based TCP/IP network all over the state as well. I'm not sure if we would
> allowed to utilize this part network as it is used for backup
communications
> to every EOC.
>
> Is anyone interested in this approach? Unless the satellite dish is
stripped
> off by high winds, this is a very reliable method to transfer messages to
> the FDEM.
>
> Once again, this is the mixing of amateur and commercial modes together.
I'm
> just pointing out the different tools available to us.
>
> Doug/KN4YT
>
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