[FADCA] LINUX White Pages / QRZ Stuff

[oderr at bellsouth.net]

This would be a good feature. What is required now is for someone to attempt a connection to the resources and make a report on the status.  I try to do this dailey in my area but it gets overlooked somedays.  I send my report to my EC for my county. Not only would this be of benefit to the Emergency Managers it would also benefit the ARES, Red Cross, Salvation Army and other organizations that could make use of the system through their HAM resources.

Keep drinking that coffee, Bud. I am following this discussion from Asheville North Carolina (where they say Jeanne is coming)on my wireless laptop.

Russ

Russ

> 
> From: "bud thompson" <budt at cfl.rr.com>
> Date: 2004/09/16 Thu AM 06:37:21 EDT
> To: "Florida Amateur Digital Communication Association" <fadca at mailman.qth.net>
> Subject: Re: [FADCA] LINUX White Pages / QRZ Stuff
> 
> Just had another thought - after that next cup of coffee cleared out the 
> cobwebs.
> 
> It has been brought to my attention that Emergency Manager types need/want 
> periodic updates on all their resources.  For us that means that a non-ham 
> emergency manager would want  to know the status of all the Telpac Nodes and 
> PMBO packet ports in his area perhaps once a day - during routine times. 
> With the LINUX/ FPAC WP/QRZ stuff and all Telpac nodes and PMBO packet ports 
> beaconing once and  hour (or so) so as to be recorded as being registered on 
> the network, someplace in the LINUX/FPAC network underbelly all the data 
> would be there for the whole network.  (i.e. the last time a Telpac/PMBO was 
> heard, etc.)
> 
> That data could then be (automatically) organized into a report and 
> (automatically) updated several times a day (if not every hour) and posted 
> on the internet much as the CMBO/PMBO status is at www.winlink.org.  An 
> Emergency Manager type can then use his browser and learn the status of his 
> e-mail over ham radio resources when ever he likes.  I suppose he could even 
> subscribe to an automatic e-mail he would receive with network status - 
> either of the entire network or just his area.
> 
> This same information/scheme would be an automatic way of those who manage 
> several switches to learn network status of the switches as well.
> 
> bud
> 
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