[RTTY] RM-11708, the "other side"

[Jay WS7I]

Well, Bill, you would be wrong.  Just give the Combined Fire Chiefs of 
Spokane County a call and see why they pay for the EWARG (Eastern WA 
Amateur Radio Group) lease year after year.  It as because back in the 
big Ice Storm that we had here some years ago the only means of 
communications between the central fire dispatch and the utility company 
was provided by our digital system. e.g. We saved their bacon.  Pole on 
fire at xx,yy,zz and only accurate, reliable and intelligent digital worked.

VHF, HF Radio's didn't work, phones, cw, or anything else.  We setup a 
point-to-point station and ran digital on each end.  That worked.

So blanket statements don't work, however, you are sort of right. During 
Katrina when the ARRL sent teams into the area and all of that stuff, 
there was a huge pipe of data (as in internet) that never left the air 
for a second.  I talked to a guy in an NOC (network Operations Center) 
and he had so much excess capacity to include generators that he never 
missed a beat.  We blogged for days on end.  He patrolled the hallways 
in a very high building with a .45 and a shotgun!

Problem was no one knew how to hook stuff up so that the "locals" could 
access his data pipe.





On 12/11/2013 5:38 PM, Bill Turner wrote:
> REPLY: In an emergency, you don't need to worry about intelligibility. 
> Even the worst disaster rarely exceeds a hundred mile radius. You are 
> not communicating with the other side of the earth. A hundred watts on 
> either 75, 60 or 40 meters will do the job nicely and although I can't 
> prove it (and neither can you) I have no doubt voice will get through 
> firstest with the mostest. Next time you talk to a cop, firefighter