[195888] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hurricane Maria: Dominica partial communications restored
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lyndon Nerenberg)
Thu Sep 21 04:52:48 2017
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <nycvar.OFS.7.76.1709202120060.90714@cnex.qbaryna.pbz>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2017 18:45:53 -0700
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Sep 20, 2017, at 6:40 PM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
>=20
> Some ham radio operators have been verified as operating from =
Dominica. Its an unfortunate, but necessary thing that needs to be =
verified during disaster communications.
I'm not clear what you're getting at here. Are you saying people are =
faking operating from the islands? That seems unlikely. Basic RDF is =
going to tell you in short order where they are transmitting from. And =
for the smaller islands, the local operators are well known in the =
region, so it seems unlikely someone would be able to set up shop in, =
say, Tennessee and claim to be a new ham who just moved to Anguilla last =
week.
--lyndon
