"Mike Coslo" wrote


As the Czar of this discussion, how about TELLING us exactly what Obrien'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, but
rather suggests that Katrina and the impending availability of 700MHz, may be
the catalyst that causes (like a good kick in the ass) serious non-lip-service
attention at the metropolitan and regional levels to survivable incident-wide
first-responder communications systems.

And I'm telling you that IMO any system that doesn't connect areas larger 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 strategic
communications. You need both, but they are completely different animals and
treating them similarly inevitably means that you won't get either one right.

73, de Hans, K0HB