Wireless Week 04/01/2008 By: A Breakthrough for Repeaters? By Elliott Drucker WirelessWeek - April 01, 2008 Over-the-air wireless repeaters have been around ...
My question is WHY can't we get any traction in Pa? 73' Bob Reynolds WB3DYE AAR3BA/T After an unsuccessful attempt eight years ago to get a PRB-1 type bill ...
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Cell phone users will get text message alerts of emergencies under a new nationwide alert system approved late Wednesday by the Federal...
Can you imagine how emergency text messaging from an agency to all cell subscribers will overload all participating cell systems during a major disaster? This...
Hi Ken: Good points. Bet no one has even thought of that yet..... Might be a good idea to get folks to relearn how to pass "formal" traffic once in awhile on...
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Not going to be a problem since text messages are done on data channels as space is available and are a lower priority than call set up and completion data. ...
There could be a large time delay for delivering the text messages due to the messages backing up in the system. It would be an interesting test in a local...
The only good thing about great earthquakes is that they have their own unique notification system. If you are within the footprint of a great quake, don't...
Hello Harold, I think that you might have been a shade closer to the epicenter of the Nisqually M6.8 quake than I was. That one lasted only 45 seconds, but it...
I don’t know what the big deal is, Emergency Email Network (http://www.emergencyemail.org/) has been doing this for a long time and you can have it sent to...
I think that you will find that this new system will be geographic sensitive to the location of the phone. If you are from Chicago and in Los Angeles, and Los...
Hello, I understand you're point and the other point that the sending of the Data message is no big deal. It in itself is not the problem. But I also see the...
Nothing listed in the system reports that I have seen state anything to the geographic locations of the phone. Unless there is some technical report that I...
... Precisely why I'm looking into good old fashoned, steam-powered, two-tone (not DTMF) paging. Moto wants WAY too much for their one-trick pony pagers so...
Hi Peter, I think you replied to the wrong person.. I didn't know if it would be geographic, that would have to do with a GPS coding. I've just been following...
The big deal is a.) EEN is a subscription that I choose to join and I pay my Carrier for the $$ for Text Messaging b.) The Federal Plan is FREE and will be...
The Department of Transportation has started shipping the 2008 update of the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG), and we are glad to announce that the 2008 ERG...
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN 424 AM CDT SAT MAY 10 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF EAST ARKANSAS... THE...
... BG8AAS from Chengdu, Sichuan reported that local UHF repeater survived in the disaster. It keeps functioning from the 1st minute and more than 200 local...
A Magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit Sichuan, China on Monday, May 12, 2008 at 06:28:04 UTC. Casualties and loss unknown up to now. According to Chinese Radio...
Being aware of sister agencies is important. ... Morse Code Returning to MARS Toolbox After more than a dozen years, Morse code will soon be returning to ...
... From: "wxfreqrs" <wxfreqrs@...> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:45 AM Subject: Fw: [CrisisAlert] Flooding in South Central Indiana ... Don Kb5fhx...
For those who would like to download a copy of the Homeland Security National Emergency Communications Plan, the link below will get you the document: ...
There were several references to SHARES which is a voluntary federal HF radio program under NCS that parallels Ham radio somewhat. SHARES membership is...
now you mention Amateur radio in the second paragraph of table A3-1 on page A-11. what are you talking about a3-1 page a-11 and were can you get a copy. ...