But my point is that if you can't get a message through during normal Internet use, how do you expect that to happen during an emergency.
My friend is on GrandeComm which is considered one of the top 100 ISPs in the nation. My personal ISP is Texas Networking one of the top 10 ISPs in the country. My "ISP" for these research E-Mails is the USAF. I don't think that it is a "bad" ISP. The fact is that any ISP at any time can have problems...and can be taken down for a short while or long time making their ability to deliver messages useless. Point-to-point messaging with automatic, semi-automatic or manual relay CAN move a large amount of messages. Just thing of the few, but very important, messages sent on HF SSB during Hurricane Katrina...many (probably most) times they would have arrived at their destinations faster and with less errors had there been a digital messaging system that could have been deployed. I do want to mention that one of the things that many first responders said was that the lack of pictures from the hurricane area really slowed down efforts. Not until the news media got their TV cameras in the air did those assessment pictures come through. There were many hand held digital cameras taken up right after the hurricane passed through but the individuals with the cameras had no way to get the picture files out of the area. Walt/K5YFW Walt/K5YFW -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 3:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: The Internet is Unreliable for Amateur RadioService Emergency Communications The posts I was replying to did not have emergency comms in reference; the circumstances were in reference to ordinary postings. He described delays in ordinary posts and rejections by ISPs. Emergencies are another story. Bill-W4BSG At 01:58 PM 9/15/2006 -0400, you wrote: > > The problem you have is with your (and your friends) ISPs, not the > > Internet. Try a real Service provider. Mine is good enough to let Video > get > > through. > > Bill-W4BSG > >The disaster/emergency weakness of the Internet is that >the physical backbone is extremely vulnerable whereas >direct 100% wireless radio-to-radio is radically less >so. > >It is the same reason why hyper-dependence on satellites >is strategically irresponsible. > >If our disaster/emergency response communicators are >dependent on Internet links they may have a rude >awakening as may those who anticipate Internet-based >bandwidth and speed. > >-- > >Thanks! & 73, >doc, KD4E >... somewhere in FL >URL: bibleseven (dot) com > > >Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org > >Other areas of interest: > >The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ >DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > Bill Aycock - W4BSG Woodville, Alabama Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion) Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
