[FADCA] Use of ESATCOM for TCP/IP

[wchast at utilpart.com]

Doug Christ wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
Doug's comments cut...


> d:)   if your suggestion includes WinLInk, forget it....we are
> extremely pleased with SEDAN and think that WinLink is a poor
> imitation of SEDAN....we are running SEDAN over the link and don't
> want to sacrifice it at all....I am not convinced that WinLink is an
> answer, some of the mideast coast guys are pushing WinLink but it so
> far has shown us nothing, is not proven and is very limited in
> scope...it relys on HF and if the HF part works, which I don't buy,
> why do they need a TCP/IP satelitte backbone? the SEDAN thing is rock
> solid, has absolute state wide coverage and right now is in over half
> of the EOC-related sites in Florida...         
>

I really hope they get to exercise their "wonderful" sedan network,
when it falls on it's face and we all get fecal matter on our face for
it, I hope someone rubs it in his face.

I can not think of anything worse than what they have selected, may they
have interesting days.... That is all I will say.

I love how these turkeys have totally taken things over to the exclusion
of all else.

I just hope I am far away when the "I told you so" has to be given.

Now back to seeing neat stuff out here in Page, AZ.

Got to ride up front on a coal train here twice testing AVL for them.
Indeed have found that there are issues one must take into account
when dealing with equipment that is only 10 feet away from a 50 KV
catenary. The power plant that the coal train supplies burns 11,000
tons of coal a hour. that is about 10 cars of coal, the train pulls
90 of them and makes 3 trips a day to the mine, some 70 miles distant
from the gen station.

Watched them load the cars at the mine end today. The train just moves
through under the silos, at about a walk, and they dump the coal into
the cars. Never have any lost on the sides. 



Chuck Hast
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