Nope, I said Internet was up and available - I don't think there was much D-STAR outside of Dallas in that time-frame, particularly in the Katrina affected areas, however, since that time D-STAR has been deployed to many areas in the gulf coast region.
The point is, that Internet as a whole is pretty survivable. It might not be at your particular location (especially residences) but that doesn't mean the Internet is "down" --- sometimes it might mean setting up a temporary link to available Internet (by having an Internet RF link kit in your bag of tricks) -- usually useful repeaters have a pretty large RF footprint and in many cases Internet could be available in the foot print, you just have to get the point- to-point link up and running. On Jul 9, 2009, at 2:28 PM, john_ke5c wrote: > > > Thanks, but I thought you meant DStar gateways kept working. While a > report of two (of how many?) ISP's that kept working until the > diesel ran out is interesting, useful data would be statistics on > how many internet end customers, such as DStar gateways, maintained > a working route to a working ISP. . > > > John Hays Amateur Radio: K7VE j...@hays.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
