I help to maintain a VHF public safety paging system. It is completely stand-alone with no dependency on telephone circuits or power. (Critical sites are on generator, sites are linked via RF). During a major disaster we can stay on the air and dispatching without depending on the infrastructure. During a major disaster such as a hurricane or ice storm, most of the cellular networks will be of the air in short time due to their use of phone lines or fiber cable for T1 circuits to the sites. Think Katrina.......
73, Joe, K1ike Chuck Kelsey wrote: > Fire service relies on paging heavily. Although it can be sent via cell > phone, it is extremely unreliable, at least in our area. Sometimes pages get > held in que for hours or even days. > > Chuck > WB2EDV > >
