FirstNet is a joke. Hardly anyone has reached DHS' level 6 interoperability and they are going to replace all that hardware at a cost by some estimates of over $10 billion.There have been several hair brained schemes to pay for it but nobody has proposed a plan that is likely to succeed. The only viable option seems to let the carriers do it. Great, just what we need: a public safety system with all the reliability of our cell systems. Back on the HAM topic huh? The reason they don't like running exercises with them is that they are a crap shoot. Some are great, some are complete jokes. Nobody wants to be graded with the wildcard in the mix.
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:34 PM Jaime Solorza <[email protected]> wrote: > well I attended some interesting sessions. The Public safety one had > several speakers from industry , gov't and academia... > Learned allot and will share some important items later but I asked a > question that really caught them off guard.....there was no mention of any > testing or work on their disaster scenarios which involved HAM radio guys. > One of the members acknowledged that during Katrina and Bastrop > emergencies...the HAM radio network was the only available in many places > and then asked why they never mentioned using 4.9 GHz but only 2.4 and > 5GHz...mu ch more to come about First Net and testing to be done on > dangerous border.....Canada and US is April. > Lots of stuff to share and some new antenna players I never saw before. > Met Sakid Ahmed from Cambium and chatted for an hour ...learned some cool > things.. > Well late lunch and Tecate beckons....chime in later,,,,,talk amongst > yourselves..topic is LMR over IP and IoT.... > laters > > Jaime Solorza > Wireless Systems Architect > 915-861-1390 >
