FWIW, in my experience, when ARES and RACES both arrive on a scene together, they rarely get into small arms fire over any thing, rather, preferring to work together to help each other set up both repeaters and to coordinate which parts of the workload will be handled by which operation in order to maximize the efficiency with which the job gets done. Perhaps this is unique to California (yeah, I know we're known as the land of Granola out there), or, perhaps as I perceive, hams world wide tend to be community-minded decent folks trying to help. Owen KB6MER On Feb 24, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Mike Lyon wrote:
The old pin--through-the-center-of-the coax trick while you go on setting up your repeater? :)
73's, Mike KE6MRE
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Andrew Kirch <trelane@trelane.net> wrote:
The problem with this is that both ARES and RACES hams have gotten there first (orange lights and strobes flashing) and are now engaged in small-arms fire over who gets to set their repeater up. You're now hiding under your vehicle. What is your next move?
Andrew
You have products like a cell on wheels. A container containing a phone switch and a mobile cell, easily installable. You place it at the center of
On 2/24/2011 10:03 AM, Franck Martin wrote: the disaster zone and all mobile phones start to work...
if you are worried about congestion, then only the "right" sims are
registered/enabled.
----- Original Message ----- From: "mikea" <mikea@mikea.ath.cx> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Thursday, 24 February, 2011 9:39:09 AM Subject: Re: Christchurch New Zealand
On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:08:39AM -0800, JC Dill wrote:
On 22/02/11 10:38 PM, Joe Hamelin wrote:
The other CERT: Community Emergency Response Team. https://www.citizencorps.gov/cert/about.shtm +1 for CERT. I also think that taking a CERT class is a great way to re-evaluate your own network emergency procedures. You may find new ways to prepare for network disasters, and to triage damage when a network disaster occurs. Agreed on CERT.
I diffidently suggest that amateur radio licensing, together with some battery-operated gear (think 2-meter or 70-cm handy-talkies at a minimum for short-haul comms, HF gear for longer-haul) may be Very Good Indeed in a disaster that takes down POTS service or government emergency communications. Folks interested in this might want to investigate ARES and/or RACES in the US, or similar activities in other countries.