K=D8HB wrote:
wrote

Lotta nonsense in this article, bunch of clueless politicians going at
it as usual.

I have a real hard time believing anyone has been killed by a spectrum sh=
ortage.
Or did Katrina suck up all the RF spectrum when it came thru.

Heh.

I wonder how they would have fared if comm managers had paid more attenti=
on to
survivability (site/antenna/power generation integrity, generator
shielding/protection/placement/fuel availability).

This isn't quite as glamorous as whiz-bang Trunking & Mobile data systems=
but
it's certainly more important.

You bet. No dispatch centers no radio period. I've been chasing down
articles on the subject for the last couple days. I haven't found
anything which specifically gets into the current condition of the EOCs
but bits and pieces indicate that the power and land line systems are
coming back up much faster than the municipal radio systems. But we're
talking about the Big Easy here which is not exactly the national model
for governmental planning and efficiency.

This is the town where 10% of it's police force quit on the spot and
headed out of town when Katrina landed on 'em. So who knows what shape
their first-responder's infrastucture is in? For all we know maybe all
the New Orleans EOC "sump pump operators" have quit too and the water
is still ten feet deep in the operations room . .

Homeland Secuity gotta get into this field and lay down the national
standards for siting and construction of the EOCs and all their
paraphernalia.=20

=20
73, de Hans, K0HB

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