In this county you can sum up the biggest problem in one word "manpower". Within my zip code there is 3 hams living in town.
One is up in the years and has not been on the air in years as well as to weak to do much. As far as the other 2, one is chief of police. The other is #2 in command on the fire department. I passed the question to my ARES crew that is posted in the subject area as it is an important question and with great scenarios. We just went through the largest mass exercise in Ontario called Trillium Exercise here in Thunder Bay Ontario. ARES was not involved as much as they should have been but we did have a chance to pass traffic via radio during the time. Anyhow, we too are in an area where we have a large mass of land and few hams to fill it. I have many areas in my ARES district that are vacant, so again getting those messages there are going to be tough both ways if all power and communications are down. Consensus here has MT63 as the mode of choice in digital traffic and use of NVIS antennas. We use it for CFARS as well Anyway, I think it is a great question and some good answers have come out of it. Regards Fred VE3FAL -----Original Message----- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charles Brabham Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 6:22 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: How Can We Push HF Emcomm Messages to the Field? One obvious choice for pushing messages to the field would be multicast ( on any band, depending on the range you are after, etc.. ) One transmitter pushes the data to an unlimited number of recipients, who all get it at the same time. No point-to-point system can compete with it, multicast is much, much faster for distributing the same data to many locations. Learn about multicast at these plasces: http://uspacket.org/smf/index.php?board=6.0;sort=subject http://uspacket.org/smf/index.php?topic=9 The second link is only for the truly curious - the article is long-winded! Pardon my typing, my vision is not good today and I'm a hunt 'n peck typist. 73 DE Charles Brabham, N5PVL ----- Original Message ----- From: John Becker, <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> WØJAB To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 4:41 PM Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: How Can We Push HF Emcomm Messages to the Field? In this county you can sum up the biggest problem in one word "manpower". Within my zip code there is 3 hams living in town. One is up in the years and has not been on the air in years as well as to weak to do much. As far as the other 2, one is chief of police. The other is #2 in command on the fire department.
