[MVMA] Just heard back from my contact at Winsupply

[William Curtice]

Chuck

I think your words are good, as is.

If you change anything,  I'm thinking you "could" loosen up on the
"non-commercial" part.  In a real emergency, we could support "commercial
entities", particularly utilities (AES, Center Point), hospitals, medical
practices, boarding kennels, food stores, etc. I believe there are many
commercial activities that we count on to provide critical support in an
emergency, that would be properly deserving of MVMA support, vs. many
non-profit organizations which, despite their chartered purpose, exist
primarily to provide high salaries for their directors and employees.

Bill  WA8APB

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023, 8:10 AM Chuck Gelm <nc8q-aredn at gelm.net> wrote:

> On 7/26/23 22:10, kd8mkg wrote:
>
> I plan on covering all the obvious bases:
>
>    - Entirely voluntary, community service-oriented emergency
>    communications support, installed and maintained by FCC licensed Amateur
>    Radio operators.
>    - Provide Web Services, File Sharing, Video Conferencing, VOIP
>    telephony; pretty much anything the internet can do.
>    - Small equipment footprint with very low power requirements.
>    - The club already maintains a number of sites in the Dayton area,
>    including hospitals.
>    - The 3131 Winsupply building is ideally located to support the
>    expansion of our network to the West side of the Dayton Metro area.
>
> If there are any other points you think I should cover, please let me know.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
>
>
> MVMA:
>
>  Steve left a VM yesterday and mentioned that communications with
> WinSupply are 'moving up the chain-of-command'.
> :-)
>
> About the only item I want to include in 'our mission' is
> we are not governed by any government or other similar entity.
> Ex. FEMA, Amateur Radio Emergency Service, American Red Cross,...
> IOW, we can act at anytime. We can 'self deploy' or 'self activate'.
> We only wait to be 'invited' by a community service entity. ;-)
> ( I try to avoid the use of the words 'emergency' and 'disaster'.)
> ;-)
> How does 'Any non-commercial community-support group's communication
> outage' sound?
>
> I/we intend to support community service entities,
> especially if there is a 'need for' or 'loss of' communication.
> e.g. Public Service event, telephone or internet service outage.
>
> Please feel free to edit that statement.
>
> 73, Chuck
>
>
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