[PPRAANet] Fw: Lighthouse presentation

[Dan Martin]

Phillip,

Lighthouse would fill the void as ARES and all other existing services 
begin to fail. When I deploy as ARES, I am prepared to stay for a few 
days. ARES doesn't require a commitment of weeks or months. If it did, 
no one with a job or family commitments could participate.

The need comes in when the degraded situation outlasts or otherwise 
exceeds normal ARES or RACES capabilities. One example is an EMP blast 
launched from N. Korea, the very threat that according to recent KRDO 
Channel 13 broadcasts is the very reason that NORAD geared up the 
Cheyenne Mtn. facility. Such an EMP event could take the N. American 
power grid down for months. There is  no way ARES and RACES can sustain 
through that. Our generators will run out of fuel. We won't be able to 
get to where we are needed and we won't be able to stay there.

ARES and RACES are great for some types of emergency events, sure, but 
nobody in the leadership structure of ARES or RACES can seriously 
maintain that their organizations are adequate to cover the worst case 
scenarios, not even with National Guard support. After all, those 
National Guard members have families and significant others that they 
want cared for. There has to be long-term and reliable comms into 
relatively safe areas for them (National Guard, ARES, RACES) to leave 
their families and significant others in.

- Dan Martin KD0SMP

On 5/24/2017 10:13 AM, Phillip H. Blanton wrote:
> What is the point of re-inventing ARES? We have ARES. We are ARES. Why 
> wouldn't the county just use ARES or RACES which they also already 
> have; rather than complicating the issue with yet another  bunch of 
> hams that we need to coordinate with?
>
> Seems to me like they should call it YASTAPPACTOWE...
>
> Yet Another Solution To A Perceived Problem Adding Complexity That 
> Otherwise Wouldn't Exist.
>
> But what do I know... I don't own a suit.
>
> -- 
> Phillip (NØTAN)
>
>
> On 5/23/2017 3:18 PM, John Bloodgood wrote:
>> Apparently the attachment is causing problems.
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>> This will be at
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>> Centennial Hall Auditorium
>> 200 S. Cascade, Colorado Springs
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>> The flyer says 9:30 to 11:30, but I have been told that due to 
>> another issue being discussed Lighthouse will probably not start 
>> until 10ish.
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>> John Bloodgood, KD0SFY
>> Emergency Coordinator & Public Information Officer
>> Region 2 District 2, Colorado ARES (Pikes Peak ARES)
>> Follow Pikes Peak ARES at:
>> https://www.facebook.com/PikesPeakARES
>>
>> https://twitter.com/pikespeakARES
>> https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8258915
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>> ________________________________
>> From: John Bloodgood <johnbloodgood at hotmail.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 1:56 PM
>> To: PPRAA Reflector
>> Subject: Fw: Lighthouse presentation
>>
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>> Don't know if the attachment will make it, but there is a El Paso 
>> Board of County Commissioners work session on the 25th and they will 
>> be talking about Lighthouse Prime.  Should start around 10 AM, if 
>> anyone would like to attend.  Lighthouse Prime is Peggy Littleton's 
>> concept of using various means to include amateur radio to 
>> disseminate information to communities during disasters.  It is not 
>> RACES and maybe a little bit ARES, but more like a smaller, local 
>> version of the NTS.
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>> John Bloodgood, KD0SFY
>> Emergency Coordinator & Public Information Officer
>> Region 2 District 2, Colorado ARES (Pikes Peak ARES)
>> Follow Pikes Peak ARES at:
>> https://www.facebook.com/PikesPeakARES
>>
>> https://twitter.com/pikespeakARES
>> https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8258915
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