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September 14th 05, 11:36 AM
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Michael Coslo wrote:
wrote: . . . . . . 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. That part of it is ignorable media fluff. 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. Don't agree. First responders are not "radio operators", they're firefighters, medics, police at multiple levels and all the rest. Given a big enough disaster like the New Orleans hurricane onsite FEMA operatives, the Coast Guard, any number of military units from all the services also land in the middle of it. All any of 'em care about is to be able to squeeze their mic button and make the right things happen right now so that they can get back to the reasons they're where they are. Expecting them to competently fiddle-fart with some 500 channel HT or another puts the onus on them if they can't "get through". Ain't gonna happen, no way, nohow. What I think should happen is the development and deployment of some sort of "super" emergency operations centers staffed by highly trained dispatchers who know how to seamlessly patch the first responder specialists making the initial call into the specific specialists they need to contact. "Center Medic 23-7, I need a chopper to airlift, I have a patient in critical condition." 23-7s exact location pops up on the dispatcher's GPS/radar screen as does the location of a USGG chopper which is a half mile away from the medic and his patient. The dispatcher punches a button then and tells 23-7 he's plugged into the chopper. 23-7 tells the chopper what he needs. "OK 23-7, this is Coast Guard Delta six, got it. I'm two minutes out coming in from the southwest." Done. Build these centers into long-range air-refuelable aircraft which can be anywhere over the U.S within hours when they're needed and can loiter over the area for days at FL 30. The military has had AWACS birds with this basic type set of capabilities for decades. They work. We need a few quasi-civil versions. - Mike KB3EIA - w3rv |
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