Well, good conversation without getting personal.
Wimax is a new technology with great potential. Also, you talk about sat phones...what if the price of satphones drops to a level where it is affordable by many.
I am FOR a P4 type bird. I am also a realistic. I am FOR Eagle, but only one project done correctly at a time.
While we brainstorm here for nothing since AMSAT-NA will do business as usual, the Germans are progressing in assembling their future Oscar. Congratulations to AMSAT-DL!
On Dec 14, 2007, at 12:37 AM, Edward Cole wrote:
Beg to differ:
the Katrina experience showed the fallacy of your reasoning. EVERY commercial approach to emcomm has failed to understand this simple fact. Fixed infrastructure will fail. There was NO comms in the Gulf coast after Katrina ... except ham radio ... and one satellite phone owned by the national guard. (all their other sat-phones had been sent to Iraq) My wife comes from Pass Christian, MS and we still had a house down there when Katrina hit.
I HOPE that this is hitting home with the officials. P4 is a great international emcomm tool. Not everyone lives in metro America!
73 Ed - KL7UW er that's in Alaska....a place with no roads in 75% of the land - Wimax, cell phones, I-tune --- Ha ha! but even in 1964 ham radio WAS the communications that worked in the 2nd largest earthquake to hit the world!