K=D8HB wrote:
"Mike Coslo" wrote

As the Czar of this discussion, how about TELLING us exactly what Obrie=
n's
regional interopability plan is? ;^) Even a little clue might help the
dillatentes like me.

Actually (if you read his piece) OBrien doesn't profess to have a plan, b=
ut
rather suggests that Katrina and the impending availability of 700MHz, ma=
y be
the catalyst that causes (like a good kick in the ass) serious non-lip-se=
rvice
attention at the metropolitan and regional levels to survivable incident-=
wide
first-responder communications systems.

If 9-11 couldn't accomplish that kick, Katrina sure can't. All the
while the SECDEF and the JCS strive to make the military lighter and
faster, the Senate makes our government more sluggish and stupid. If
only Katrina had been the leader of a Christian Cult.

And I'm telling you that IMO any system that doesn't connect areas larg=
er than
"regional" is not going to work under many circumstances.

That's a separate and distinctly different kettle of fish.

Think of intra-incident (first responders, search and rescue) as tactical
communications, and extra-incident (recovery, supply/logistics) as strate=
gic
communications. You need both, but they are completely different animals=
and
treating them similarly inevitably means that you won't get either one ri=
ght.

73, de Hans, K0HB

Hans, you missed your calling in life. You shudda been a communicator.