Walt- I will agree that this is a desirable capability, and I will agree that Hams should *Within reason* provide emergency Comms, but I DO NOT see this scenario as a proper part of Ham service. Especially if it requires drastic changes in our service constraints. Really- this is an extreme case, and I am truly surprised at you for putting it out as a serious option. (Or, was it?) Bill-W4BSG
At 09:41 AM 9/19/2006 -0500, you wrote: >Let me give one incident where high through put would be most desirable... > >When hurricanes hit the Texas Gulf Coast, all but radio communications >can be lost between Brownsville, Texas to Houston, Texas. The weather >stations there may have their eather radars operational but unable to send >the "picture" or data to other weather stations. A highspeed, error free, >robust, realtime, HF data mode is needed. The radar information may be >7.50 K bytes or larger. This data would need to be repeated every 5-10 >minutes during critial stages of a hurricane. > >Walt/K5YFW Bill Aycock - W4BSG Woodville, Alabama 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/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> 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/
