I just don't see this being a major replacement of resources. The US Government still seems to have a love for Motorola. The ham community still and in my personal opinion will always have a role in emcomm. We as ham radio operators have the time, ability and resources to fill the gaps and cover the much needed health and welfare gap that responders do not. I do disaster response and my focus is communications, I have to support teams in the field, from within the field and know first hand that it is the ham radio volunteers that set up in hospitals, shelters and emergency operations centers that can get the word out to families and friends outside the affected area that their loved ones are safe.
Just my thoughts!! Adam KG4WWH _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of sacacs Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 20:59 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] The Future of USA Emcomm? Do you have $4000 just for the radio? If you read what you sent, that radio is P25 used for Police and Fire. Though there are some P25 Ham repeaters out there, P25 can not come close to what D-Star can do. In the Ham and Emcomm world, D-Star (and Ham radio) has no thing to worry about! Darren N9RHG ----- Original Message ----- From: john_ke5c To: dstar_digital@ <mailto:dstar_digital%40yahoogroups.com> yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 5:23 PM Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] The Future of USA Emcomm? http://www.thalesli <http://www.thalesliberty.com/media/briefs/Thales_Multiband_Portable_SDR.pdf > berty.com/media/briefs/Thales_Multiband_Portable_SDR.pdf http://www.networkw <http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/43196> orld.com/community/node/43196 Get your loaner: http://www.thalesli <http://www.thalesliberty.com/demo_request.asp> berty.com/demo_request.asp Goodbye DStar Emcomm? Goodbye hams? 73 -- John [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
