[137966] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Christchurch New Zealand
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Feb 24 18:09:53 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimP3SMqm5OjXzG+XiCsew168nUaYEhgwFnWR4UC@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:06:41 -0800
To: Mike Lyon <mike.lyon@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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? :)
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> 73's,
> Mike
> KE6MRE
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> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Andrew Kirch <trelane@trelane.net> =
wrote:
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>> 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?
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>> Andrew
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>> On 2/24/2011 10:03 AM, Franck Martin wrote:
>>> 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
>> the disaster zone and all mobile phones start to work...
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>>> if you are worried about congestion, then only the "right" sims are
>> registered/enabled.
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>>> ----- 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
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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