Jim Hampton wrote:
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Michael Coslo wrote:
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K=D8HB wrote:
Responders' lack of spectrum 'cost lives'
By Shaun Waterman
UPI Homeland and National Security Editor
Published 9/12/2005 11:40 AM
WASHINGTON, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- Former Sept. 11 commission Chairman Tom
Kean says first responders in Louisiana not having had access to
radio spectrum needed for interoperable communications "cost lives,"
as it did at the World Trade Center.
"On the ground, the people that get there first can't talk to each
other because the radio communications don't work," Kean told CNN
Sunday. "They haven't got enough what's called spectrum."
. . . and on and on and on . .
My ongoing understanding has been that there is already gobs of wide
open UHF spectrum space already available via all the unused UHF TV
channels. Even in very large metropolitan areas. Each one of those
channels is 4 Mhz wide or something like that, how many emergency
services NBFM channels can be squeezed into 4 Mhz? A *bunch*! I reali=
ze
that some of those TV-free channels are already being used by non-TV
comms here and there but in every locale it seems to me that there's
gotta be at least a few TV channels still wide open and available.
Beats me . .
Lotta nonsense in this article, bunch of clueless politicians going at
it as usual.
That is because it is monumentally easier to blame the problem on the
bandwidth used by Television than it is to blame those actually
responsible.
No you are roughly half right below
Fact is, if the trained communicators who can use the conditions of the
various VHF/UHF, and HF bands to their advantage are called in at early
notice, the emergency conditions can be handled quite proficiently. No
extra bandwidth needed.
Just trained and competent operators.
the other thing needed is inteligent planing and prediection of what
may be needed , but then I suppose you could say that was part of
having trained and competent operators
- Mike KB3EIA -
What counts is what happens when things *don't* go according to plan and =
one
has to change mode, bands, or whatever. This may include, but not be
limited to, mf, hf, vhf, uhf, fm, ssb, or digital modes (even including
*gasp* cw). That separates the men from the boys.
Indeed Flexiblity is good (if very rare thing these days)
Indeed one thing I have always advcated (and which worked pretty weel
around here this summer during fireseason) was that Ham stations should
have dare I speak it CB radio capity as well, so when a fire caught eh
800mhz tower in the area and the ems folks switched to their CB back up
we could help them by relaying from staions at one end of the fire to
the other
Jim NOT flaming just asking you to share Do you realy see some senario
where in the current lack of use of CW outside the ARS that Morse
encoded Cw would play a real role? If so please share, the best I have
seen is some varraint on the Indepence Day one
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73 from Rochester, NY
Jim AA2QA