[FADCA] EPMBO in Florida????

Mon Mar 28 00:37:09 EST 2005

I am responding or commenting on several messages that have been sent today
regarding Paclink and the database.

I.  On PMBOs.

I am not sure I know what a "EPMBO" is. Emergency Participating Mail Box?

I think you are mixing "un registered PMBO" with "non participating PMBOs."

>From the stand point of Winlink, non participating PMBOs do not handle
routine Email but act only to handled local Email in an emergency.  They may
act as a "hubbing PMBO" to support intra LAN Email between participating
agencies in a disaster and, as I understand it, they may or may not have an
HF component.

"Participating PMBO" are full time PMBOs with HF capabilities but may be on
dial up internet access or full time (Cable, ADSL, DSL, T1 or other)
connections.

Our coordination policy does not provide for "secret" coordination or
"unregistered" devices. If a Tellpac Gateway exists and has been registered
with the Winlink system (the only way a Telpac Gateway can operate) and they
are active they are listed at the following site:
http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/telpac.cgi

While I think we should have all Florida Telpac Gateways and PMBOs in our
database and we should show them on our WEB Site. I am also glad the Free
has put a link from our site to the above site so that active Telpac
Gateways can be identified by call, location, and frequency.

II.  Paclink stations and Winlink.

>From Burt's questions, there is some confusion with regard to Paclink and
Telpac Gateways.  Paclink can connect through a Telpac Gateway to a PMBO or
directly to a PMBO. But a Paclink station can not connect directly with
another Paclink station.  The Telpac Gateway will connect the Paclink
station to a PMBO that will accept the Email being sent and, on the second
connection through the Telpac Gateway (if the Paclink station has never
connected to the Telpac Gateway), send any waiting Email to the Paclink
station or any packet stations using the Paclink station as a mail box (as
in the case of laptops on a local wireless or wired LAN with Outlook Express
accounts pointing to the Paclink equipped computer on the LAN.)

III.  The FADCA Database.

I have some updates that I have received that still need to be posted to the
database.  For the delay, I apologize.

If District Directors want a copy of the data base for their District to use
to see what the details are, I can send it. I have sent it before but
received practically no response.  I won't send it unless a Director asks me
for it.

Sysops or owners can go to the FADCA website and submit an request an online
request for coordination of devices that the FADCA coordination policy says
can be coordinated on a frequency in the band plan listed on the WEB site.
If a new coordination is being requested, and the new coordination is
replacing a currently listed device, please explain in the comments section
of the coordination.  Don't send me an email.  While you may know what has
happened in your area, I have no way of knowing and I don't read minds very
well.

I am concerned that some people have submitted information regarding a
station or device listed on the database and they are not the registered
sysop or trustee.  PLEASE CONTACT THE LISTED SYSOP OR TRUSTEE or document
that the listed person no longer is in the area, is no longer an operating
Amateur, or that attempts to contact the listed SYSOP or Trustee have not
been successful.  I don't want us to get in the position of having deleted a
device or changed the coordination of a device without the coordination
holder aware of an consenting to the deletion or change. I hope we can do a
better job than some repeater coordinators have done in this regard.

Don't send me a list of changes. They often have no relationship to what is
in the data base and it appears that some people who submit information
don't even look in the database that is displayed on the Web Site to see
what is in the database before sending a lot of "updates" of things that
don't even exist in the database.

I will update the database with what I have received as I have fallen behind
with a lot of things (I once thought were very important) since December 15,
2003. I will use the program we have now as it does everything we need it to
do and Free is set up to receive the updates using the current program and
enter the coordination requests I have received.

I don't have time or the interest anymore to start learning a new data base
program or re-entering data that is in the existing database.

If you want someone to take over and maintain the database on some other
program I will be more than pleased to send them what I have and they can do
it.  I will have to have someone take it over in the next 18 months anyway
and now might be a better time than later.

Russ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Sinbine" <n4xeo at bellsouth.net>
To: <fadca at mailman.qth.net>; <wl2kemcomm at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 7:19 PM
Subject: [FADCA] EPMBO in Florida????

> Hi All
>
> Does anyone have a unregistered (Epmbo) on the air in Florida?
> If there are would you be willing to share the frequencies that you are
> running it on? It might come in handy in a emergency.
> It seems to me that we do have a need to have the UN registered PMBO's so
> they don't get a lot of NON emergency use. On the other hand, If we have a
> emergency here in Florida it would be nice to have a list of the
> frequencies that they are on. I guess this is a catch 22. If the
> frequencies are listed then they wouldn't be unlisted but we need to have
a
> way to know where they are also.
>
> Have we gotten down the road far enough that we have a separate set
> of  frequencies for the unregistered Epmbo's? This way if there was a
> emergency then we wouldn't have to compete with the rest of the normal
> traffic on the air.... Something to think about..
>
>
> 73, Bill N4XEO
>
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