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September 14th 05, 03:32 AM
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Jim Hampton wrote: "an_old_friend" wrote in message oups.com... Michael Coslo wrote: wrote: 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 =20 73 from Rochester, NY Jim AA2QA |
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