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September 14th 05, 05:41 PM
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Michael Coslo wrote: wrote: Michael Coslo wrote: 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. I must not have made myself clear Brian. The answer is not in freeing up the BW now occupied by analog television. The answer for communications in a disaster is trained and competent operators. I agree with all that. And the trained operators should be called in when the regular comms first go out, not after a few days. I don't agree here - depending on what I think you mean by "trained operators". Local governments can't train and store reserve dispatchers who are only activated for drills in preparation for major emergencies, won't work. Emergency dispatching is an art and skill which has to be used on a very regular basis or the dispatchers lose the edge they need to do the job properly when a "big one" hits unexpectedly. In those cases the local authorities can call up all shifts of their regular crews to get a sufficient amount of manpower and their reserve radios on the air. But in order to get any benefit out of an approach like this the dispatch centers have to be able to almost immediately be expanded and able to keep operating thru hell and high water for an extended period. None of those type facilities are in place that I've ever heard about. 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. I doubt that there will be the money for that. Good idea tho'. A couple $80 million civil AWACs planes and $10 million a year to maintain and staff 'em is chicken feed. Problem is that Haliburton will have already drained the till before Boeing and Motorola get their passes at it. - Mike KB3EIA - w3rv |
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