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September 22nd 05, 03:26 AM
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Michael Coslo wrote: wrote: K=D8HB wrote: "Michael Coslo" wrote How we gonna connect the nation at 700 MHz? Hi Mike, The article had nothing to do with "connecting the nation". It has to = do with regional interoperability, the very thing that Katrina aftermath found = largely inadequate. 73, de Hans, K0HB Hans, as a retired CPO, you know as well as anybody else that interoperability of any service is a problem. Recall Grenada where a grunt used his Sprint calling card on a commercial line to call the Pentagon and request an Air Force air-strike on a target. Good grief! It's not just about grunts dying anymore. You'd think after 09/11/2001 we'd have fast-tracked this stuff! This is what has me worried. If a new Whiz-bang system is going to work, it has to connect the whole nation. When New Orleans is under water, they don't just need to talk to the locals, they need to get word out to the whole country - or at least the parts that can send help. We used an expression in the service, "Train like you fight, fight like you train." Why can't this interoperable communications system be something that they are using -everyday- instead of something sitting on a shelf awaiting the next emergency, trying to find the one smart guy that can remember how to make it work? And since we don't know where the next disaster will strike, that means the whole country needs to be in the picture. No big picture thinkers need apply? - Mike KB3EIA - True enough. I work in government and find that it lacks qualified leaders and/or those without vision. FWIW, I'd prefer if no academics applied either. They're big on ideas, short on just about everything else. |
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