Hi Howard, Thank you for the interesting reply. It is the first one that I've seen that actually addresses the core issues.
Certainly, your item 1 suggestion, "have their radios on all the time" is a necessary fundamental for push messaging to work, and it is the prerequisite for it to function. This begs the question: How is the notification routed to the specific operator, notifying the operator that an email or SMS cell phone text message is pending? Your item 2 suggestion is good (check your email once per hour), but respectfully, it is still the old check in and "pull a message" technique of the early 20th century ARRL nets, rather than the quick "push" messaging that is needed today. Your item 3 suggestion is good (use D-Star calling) for notification from one radio operator to another. But, the weak part of the "monitoring a voice net" approach is that the members of a voice net or D-Star net may not know when that specific operator has an email or text message pending, so even if they can manually call the operator, how would they know when to call? The obvious limitations of D-Star on VHF/UHF and the need for repeaters is a weak point, especially given the hurricane scenario, as Katrina taught us. D-Star would be good as a VHF/UHF component of a larger strategy that includes HF. In response to your comment that the ALE High Frequency Network may have some ideas on how to do Push Messaging, the answer is yes, Push Messaging is being developed now for HFN. But HFN does not want to re-invent the wheel if necessary. Also, HFN wants to understand what has been tried before (if anything) and get any suggestions on how it can be done, or various ways to do it. So far there hasn't been any realistic answers that address the core "Push Message" question, other than yours, Howard. Bonnie VR2/KQ6XA --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "Howard Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here are some possibilities: > > 1. Teams have their radios on all the time, or perhaps only on the > top of the hour for 10 minutes to check in > 2. Teams connect to an email server via the radio at least once an > hour. > 3. D-Star radios - they have the ability for 'call-sign squelch'. A > member will only hear messages explicitly sent to his call-sign. > > There are many approaches, probably more ideas exist in your > organization than I have thought of here. > > Howard > > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "expeditionradio" > <expeditionradio@> wrote: > > > > The core question still remains: > > How can we initiate (push) a message to the > > mobile or portable operator in the field, when > > the field operator has no expectation that a > > message will be sent? > > > > Or, even more simply, how can we timely notify > > the field operator "You Have Mail" via HF? > > > > During the Katrina disaster the traditional > > HF voice nets failed to adequately provide > > this type of notification service. > > > > It's been 3 years since Katrina. > > What has we done to improve our ability > > to notify field ops via HF? > > > > How can we work together to forge unified or > > standard methods to make this happen... in a > > way that will function across the various > > ham Emcomm platforms and nets? > > > > Bonnie VR2/KQ6XA
