My thoughts exactly. Like this was a similar case when a local ARES/RACES group was placing a LOT of their traffic handling on WINLINK. i told them when it all dies how are they supposed to pass traffic.
We need to be the key word, "Off the Grid" in every way Joe WB9SBD
sco@sco-inc.com wrote:
Sprint would be down too in a Katrina situation or if the terrorists set off a nuclear device in Atlanta the commo in the Southeast might be down. How can Sprint offer the same coverage area as Hams? How would Sprint tie into military and civil defense commo? The "wide area" must be assumed to be at least a whole state or region. If all normal commo in the Southeastern US goes down and you are in that area how far can your cell phone go to a Sprint site? Assume the nearest working site is at least 500 miles from you? How does Sprint handle that? How do you keep the "public" out so you can handle emergency traffic, on Sprint? With a GEO sat we could provide commo in the whole lower 48 (states). How does Sprint compare to that capability?
Les W4SCO
At 06:04 PM 12/13/2007, you wrote:
Forget the EMCOMM support, that does not make sense anymore. Read on...
WIMAX will be available from sprint soon. THAT will be a reliable technology for ecom. With one access point, they will cover a wide area for both data and voice. NOW, imagine multiple access point ( and I mean 2 or 3 max) and regardless of what the ecom situation is, help will get through.
We have to understand here that P4 satcom for ecom is not a selling point anymore.
On Dec 13, 2007, at 3:17 PM, Andrew Glasbrenner wrote:
What many of us have been trying to say is there are NO free rides to GTO. The business has changed in that respect. The P4 proposal opens the door to possible govermental EMCOMM funding, as well as bringing in a whole new base of support.
73, Drew KO4MA
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