I'm guessing Lewis and one or two others have had some sort of bad dealing with a HAM and now hate the all forever for any impractical reason.
----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lewis Bergman" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 8:33:56 PM Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Tessco Show FirstNet is a joke. Hardly anyone has reached DHS' level 6 interoperability and they are going to replace all that hardware at a cost by some estimates of over $10 billion.There have been several hair brained schemes to pay for it but nobody has proposed a plan that is likely to succeed. The only viable option seems to let the carriers do it. Great, just what we need: a public safety system with all the reliability of our cell systems. Back on the HAM topic huh? The reason they don't like running exercises with them is that they are a crap shoot. Some are great, some are complete jokes. Nobody wants to be graded with the wildcard in the mix. On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 5:34 PM Jaime Solorza < [email protected] > wrote: well I attended some interesting sessions. The Public safety one had several speakers from industry , gov't and academia... Learned allot and will share some important items later but I asked a question that really caught them off guard.....there was no mention of any testing or work on their disaster scenarios which involved HAM radio guys. One of the members acknowledged that during Katrina and Bastrop emergencies...the HAM radio network was the only available in many places and then asked why they never mentioned using 4.9 GHz but only 2.4 and 5GHz...mu ch more to come about First Net and testing to be done on dangerous border.....Canada and US is April. Lots of stuff to share and some new antenna players I never saw before. Met Sakid Ahmed from Cambium and chatted for an hour ...learned some cool things.. Well late lunch and Tecate beckons....chime in later,,,,,talk amongst yourselves..topic is LMR over IP and IoT.... laters Jaime Solorza Wireless Systems Architect 915-861-1390
