Well it's true there's a huge variety of people and experience in the ham community, it's certain there will be some that suck, and so it's a risk getting involved without good research first.
But in general, they - or I should say us hams- have a very nice combination of tower sites, active hardware, spare hardware, RF knowledge and eagerness for community service so as to respond rapidly in any situation. I just hope more hams will evolve from old voice / kilobit-speed packet networks to new 2.3 / 5.9ghz IP systems so as to keep pushing boundaries and advancing the hobby. On Feb 24, 2016 9:00 PM, "Mike Hammett" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <http://www.ics-il.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/ICSIL> > <https://plus.google.com/+IntelligentComputingSolutionsDeKalb> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/intelligent-computing-solutions> > <https://twitter.com/ICSIL> > Midwest Internet Exchange <http://www.midwest-ix.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/mdwestix> > <https://www.linkedin.com/company/midwest-internet-exchange> > <https://twitter.com/mdwestix> > The Brothers WISP <http://www.thebrotherswisp.com/> > <https://www.facebook.com/thebrotherswisp> > > > <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXSdfxQv7SpoRQYNyLwntZg> > ------------------------------ > *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 >> > >
