[SMCARA] [Fwd: SMLS]

[petebutt at comfac.com]

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Subject: SMLS
From:    "LDG Electronics Inc" <ldg at ldgelectronics.com>
Date:    Sun, September 11, 2011 8:02 pm
To:      smcara at mailman.qth.net
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SMLS Update


Just a follow up to the SMLS being disabled by CARA. While it was
unfortunate,
there was never any danger to life (people) or structures for the recent
weather
events that occurred because of the loss of that system. There were enough
repeaters still on line that mostly all communications were able to be
conducted
in St. Mary's. It would have been better if the link system was up, but that
was

not an option dues the actions of CARA

Calvert was heard that they used simplex since their plan has been
re-written to
no longer include any SPARC repeaters and Charles County worked simplex. We
have
not heard from PG or AA counties to see how they fared through the weather
(although it was not as bad there).

Yes, it's a great inconvenience that we do not currently have inter-county
communications, but we will solve that in a way that does not involve the
Calvert Amateur Radio Association. This will be a very simple thing to do
and
we will publish details of how we will accomplish this in the next month or
so.

Please be patient while we work on the replacement system and then we ask
everyone to become active in supporting it. CARA has demonstrated
how easy it is for one group to take out an entire system for many groups
and we
simply have to make sure that can never happen again.

Dwayne Kincaid
WD8OYG





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LDG Electronics, Inc.

1445 Parran Road

St. Leonard, MD 20685

Phone: 410-586-2177

http://www.ldgelectronics.com

groups.yahoo.com/group/LDG-auto-tuners/

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