OK, you want to play "Reality":
IN a mass-casualty disaster, I hope satellite users will be smart enough to "Restrict satellite use for emergency traffic". Each pass will be strictly controlled by a Net Control with closed-net protocols (no calls without permission of NC). NC WILL be traffic cop and it will be one at a time calling...offenders will be "visited by black suburbans and guys wearing sunglasses and padded suit coats"! ;-)
Seriously, under emcomm there WILL BE RULES and they will be ENFORCED...as they should be.
so there is there is no comparison with ham radio, as usual.
Another reality: historically, most ham radio emcomm is passed on HF or terrestrial VHF. My unsolicited opinion: digital-comms is where satellite will be most useful in emergency traffic.
73, Ed - KL7UW
At 11:54 AM 6/27/2011, John Geiger wrote:
That is a good point. I am sure that if/when the big one hits and we need to pass emergency communications, we will have to do it under less than optimal conditions or "rules" including on the satellites. When such an occassion occurs, I doubt everyone will be limiting themselves to 5 watts or less, or only 1 QSO per satellite per day or weekend. I think most people will be trying to get through any way they can to pass traffic. We should get used to the pandamonium, that it what it will actually be like.
73s John AA5JG
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Bob- W7LRD w7lrd@comcast.net wrote:
Because, just maybe, one day you'll have to do it for real!
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