Oregon Governor Allocates $250,000 for Digital Communications Network
The State of Oregon's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) received $250,000
from Governor Ted Kulongoski's Strategic Reserve Fund to further develop and
enhance a statewide Amateur Radio digital communications network,
At 07:35 PM 1/9/2008, you wrote:
Oregon Governor Allocates $250,000 for Digital Communications Network
The State of Oregon's Office of Emergency Management (OEM) received
$250,000 from Governor Ted Kulongoski's Strategic Reserve Fund to
further develop and enhance a statewide Amateur
Does this ever increasing number of government agencies doing this
scare the bejeebers out of anybody. That is, the government buying
permanent infrastructure and someday wanting a return on investment,
like using it to augment regular communications?
Jim
WA0LYK
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jgorman01 wrote:
Does this ever increasing number of government agencies doing this
scare the bejeebers out of anybody. That is, the government buying
permanent infrastructure and someday wanting a return on investment,
like using it to augment regular communications?
Jim WA0LYK
Actually, It's not our property. We are squatters. As long as we respect
the property and don't run it down, we will continue to have occupancy.
The real owner always looks after his investment.
When the owner has a non-productive tenant that assumes the property belongs
to him, not the
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Another point to consider is that the Government Employee who will be
operating this equipment is maintaining (and will probably continue
to maintain) and average age south of 40 years old. The same cannot
be said for the Amateur Radio community who is letting
Here is Missouri we have 114 counties plus the city of St. Louis.
Each and ever county plus the city of St. Louis puts money into
their EOC. I know of none that does not have ham equipment.
And has been doing so for many many years.
Would that be any thing like you what your talking about?
Maybe
John Becker, WØJAB wrote:
Maybe all would be well if the word WinLink had not been used.
Probably. Other forms of amateur communication listen before they
transmit, thereby preventing unnecessary QRM.
de Roger W6VZV
Roger J. Buffington wrote:
John Becker, WØJAB wrote:
Maybe all would be well if the word WinLink had not been used.
Probably. Other forms of amateur communication listen before they
transmit, thereby preventing unnecessary QRM.
Please, can we not go round this circle *yet
Jim, and everyone else,
I am the Radio Tech for Clackamas County, Oregon and I KNOW the problems that
the Hams have getting Digital communications going to and from a disaster scene!
My experience with the ARES units in Oregon and our local County OEM is that
the equipment that they,
Not knocking the volunteers for sure. I do have a question. How come
the money wasn't invested in public safety equipment using public
safety NTIA assigned frequencies to do the same thing? These don't
require ham licenses to operate and could expand the resource pool of
operators. As a
Hello all !
Briefly introducing myself : a newbie one at Digimods ( I didn't say
Obiwan at Digimods unfortunately..)
I'm the proud owner of a brand new Digikeyer from Microham..beautifull
product.
I achieved to setup HRD + DM780 as well at my TS 2000 (Ouff !)
BUT :
I'm solicited to lend parts
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From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Roger J. Buffington
Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:18 AM
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: Oregon Governor Allocates $250,000 for
Digital Communications
Rod, it is really great that you are a member of both the amateur radio
community and the public safety communications community ..
It does amaze me to see some members of the amateur radio community
start whining after public and/or private agencies officially recognize
***and support*** the
How is the government going to get operators? Any full time staff will have
a multitude of other duties to perform.
As a taxpayer you should appreciate the government supporting volunteers and
obtaining equipment that is less costly than the equivalent commercial gear.
Rud Merriam K5RUD
Unless the affected Counties have been able to change out or reprogram their
equipment to be able to operate in Narrow Band mode, they can't operate on
those frequencies!
They are designated for Narrow Band operation only!
jgorman01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not
This is good. Greg probably knows abt this, too. (Hopefully)
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From: Mark Thompson
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I'm responding (partly only) to myself..Yes ! (maybe I'm not making
anything up !) with corrects parameters, that is :
through Windows recorder :
-your microphone computer input (to create wav files)
-usb codec output
- 44.100 8b mono wav format
you can
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-play them on
So you think we have problems with PacTor 3 in the Ham bands.watch this
video before it's removed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBo4E77ZXo
de Rick W3BI
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From: jgorman01 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, January 9, 2008
FWIW, some of these agencies already use sophisticated HF systems with ALE
and very advanced DSP implementations for Voice use.
Some are interlinked with SHARES, MARS or both on NITA Frequencies.
A recent FEMA NECN exercise recorded 598 stations from 31 federal state and
civil agencies and
FYI, my hospital OWNS the ham equipment deployed at the facility.
ARES/RACES provides operators but we retain ownership of anything we
paid for out of Govt grants. I insisted on it , as a hospital
official, since I know how fickle some hams organizations can be.
Despite many clearly wonderful
Patricia (Elaine) Gibbons wrote:
It does amaze me to see some members of the amateur radio community
start whining after public and/or private agencies officially recognize
***and support*** the value of the amateur radio service during disaster
response and recovery operations
Elaine, you
Andrew O'Brien wrote:
I think that much of the hams in emcomms is a scam , or a way for
hams to play firefighter/cop/medic without actually having to be
one.The scam is the spreading of the concept that us hams sit
around all days looking for that ship's SOS or waiting for Skywarn to
be
Let me post a couple of quotes from a comment to rm-11392 and then
tell me that no government or organization in the US will use the
amateur equipment they purchase, EVER, for their own purposes when
they feel the financial pinch that you mention.
As an active member of numerous emergency
jgorman01 wrote:
Let me post a couple of quotes from a comment to rm-11392 and then
tell me that no government or organization in the US will use the
amateur equipment they purchase, EVER, for their own purposes when
they feel the financial pinch that you mention.
And so you feel we hams
Thank you Andy. Now you better duck. You have maligned the sacred
cow of ham radio.
Scott/K6IX
Andrew O'Brien wrote:
FYI, my hospital OWNS the ham equipment deployed at the facility.
ARES/RACES provides operators but we retain ownership of anything we
paid for out of Govt grants. I
But Alan, I deal with medical emergencies several times per week! As
I pointed out in my original post, I don't question that we have many
ham's that provide emergency communications. I do question the
integrity of amateur radio claims, and feel that it's capabilities
are vastly overstated.
On Jan 9, 2008 10:15 PM, Scott Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thank you Andy. Now you better duck. You have maligned the sacred
cow of ham radio.
Scott/K6IX
Hi Scott. Aside from amateur radio equipment and satellite phone's,
my hospital used the grant money for zillion dollar suits
Another FWIW...
Digital Sound Card modes are alive and well on NTIA frequencies.
On any given week, there are at least 15 hours of digital net operation (in
the Region I am in ) using MT-63, Olivia and now Contestia. Easy Pal is
also being looked over as a mode to send ultra high
I'm a bit surprised to see you say it this way, Andy.
We have a push here in my Section for all hospitals, under a grant to
consider the installation of an amateur radio VHF antenna, feedline, and
power supply as a basic radio communication framework in case of
emergency. Depending upon any
Andrew O'Brien wrote:
But Alan, I deal with medical emergencies several times per week!
Understood. With doctors, medical staff equipment to handle that.
Now take all that away. The need is still there, you just lost all the
infrastructure to handle it
different situation entirely
I
I have to toss in my two cents here. I was a member of ARES for many years.
We provided communications for search and rescue in the mountains of New Mexico
back in the '70s. We also provided communications for the Forest Service
during forest fires. We had a ham RTTY station in the Forest
jim writes:
Look I'm not saying we shouldn't volunteer. However, beware strangers
bearing gifts and all that. I don't know how old you are but you
appear to have a bias against us older folks.
To be clear: my old fart comment is in reference to a mindset and
behavior, not any individual's
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