WELL SAID --- BUT IS ANYONE LISTENING?? BOB, K2CRR
----- Original Message ----- From: "expeditionradio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <digitalradio@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 11:24 PM Subject: [digitalradio] Open 5066 for HF-based Digital Email, Emergency Data > We have plenty of oddball ham-only HF methods for hams to play hobby > with. But very little attention is being paid to interoperation with > other radio services, for initial calling, voice, image, or data. > > I support the "5066" standard in amateur radio. It is time for hams to > step up to the plate, and to unite behind useful baseline standards > that are compatible with the rest of the HF world for emergency > interoperation. The best way we can be prepared for communications > emergencies is to have a compatible ubiquitous system and use it on a > daily basis. > > Picture yourself in the following scenario: > You and your home survived the disaster that came suddenly in the > middle of one night. But all the internet and telephone has been down > for several weeks in your area. A local emergency worker comes to you > with a request to contact the disaster headquarters with an important > 5000 word emergency message. > > What would you do next? > How would you call them? > Where would you start? > Are you prepared to assist? > > Here at my QTH in California, we await just such an impending disaster > scenario. We don't know when it will happen, but we certainly know it > indeed will happen. Earthquakes, tsunamis, and huge fires are part of > California's recent history... they will continue in the future. Even > during the "relatively small" Loma Prieta Earthquake I experienced in > 1989, the power went off for a long time (9 days at my home, and > several weeks in some areas). The cellphone, landline telephone, > electronic banking, and most of the repeaters went down over a wide > area within a few minutes or hours after the quake shaking stopped. > The gas stations shut down when their tanks ruptured or infra- > structure was damaged. The grocery store shelves were rapidly depleted. > > That earthquake was not the one we Californians call "the Big One". > > You may not have earthquakes or tsunamis in your area. Perhaps you may > have tornadoes, hurricanes, blizzards, floods, (or maybe a pandemic) > instead. > > Let us put aside our petty squabbling, and not worry about whether any > particular digital method was "not invented here" by hams. Let us > unite behind a common HF standard and actually achieve interoperable > digital communications capability with the rest of the HF world for > when "The Big One" comes to your hometown. > > Bonnie KQ6XA > > . > > > ---original message--- >>Steve N2CKH wrote: >> FYI - Open5066 has begun, see: > http://open5066.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page >> >> FYI - The NPHRN has a mandate of September 2007 that will >> drive those that support it and that it supports, see: >> http://www.bt.cdc.gov/planning/coopagreement/pdf/fy06guidance_qa2.pdf >> >> Just what will take place within the Amateur Radio Service WRT STANAG >> 5066 is unknown at this time, in the U.S. nothing will take place >> until the FCC bring the rules up to date and even then it will depend >> on just how much they update the rules as to just what can be >> accomplished on HF. Other countries do not suffer the same >> limitations and then some other countries suffer worst limitations, >> it an age old story in that regard. >> >> What is obvious to me and many if not all is that for the Amateur >> Radio Service to really be effective as a "Service" and not just a >> way to have fun with radio, we need to have a full blown >> radio-to-radio e-mail (or automated radio relay if you prefer) system >> in place worldwide to meet the demands of the Amateur Radio Service, >> be it based on STANAG 5066 or whatever and it needs to be done use >> the PC Sound Device Modem (PCSDM) and before anyone laughs at that, >> STANAG 5066 is already being done via the PCDSM commercially, refer >> to: http://www.skysweep.com/binaries/doc/SkySweepMessenger.pdf >> >> P.S. - ALE is at the Physical Level of STANAG 5066 > > > . > > > > > > Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org > > Other areas of interest: > > The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ > DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy > discussion) > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
