RadioBanter - View Single Post - is an STA needed to transmit data on CB channel 40?

June 19th 06, 02:55 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.homebrew

wrote:
All,

I've got a brother who works for a consulting firm whose main customer
is Homeland Secrity.

What the feds want to do is to be able to communicate mil-spec digital
packets over low power links in the middle of a disaster-hit area
between squads of Guards deployed across a destroyed city.

Wow, looks like consultants are the same the world over - come up with
lunatic schemes, and get paid lots of money for them.

Tell him to get a real job - it will pay less, but he wont be held
responsible after the next major stuff up.

And tell him to buy a text book on - well, just about anything except
self-promotion - he doesnt seem to know very much. Probably why hes a
consultant. Is he an accountant?

And dont the National Guard units already have radios - they have been
issued to military units since, lets say, 1918 or therabouts.....

What a wonderful scenario - due to basic functional stupidity, the
disaster plan is contingent on being able to commandeer radios from
stores, and , with a swiss army knife, modify them for data
communications. There is, of course, a team of trained technicians
with the advancing relief workers who can do this.The data comms gear
is already with the people trying to get it to work on the commandeered
radios.......

Get real people - this is either a post from someone taking the mickey
out of you guys, or, if it is a real, serous idea - make sure you dont
need any external help if a disaster does happen in your area.....
sounds like organising a frozen chicken raffle would be straining their
ability..

Andrew VK3BFA.