Many of our repeaters in Georgia are on dual redundant Internet feeds. And since those feeds are feeding the PBS Emergency Alert TV stations, they are on the top of the "get working first" list. The sites are also located a little inland to reduce the flooding issues with hurricanes.
In the advent that we do lose a site, we have a portable repeater to move in as close as we have Internet access. And if you take away the Internet, heck, I'm left with a repeater that can do voice as well as data. I'm not really aware of any FM repeater installations that have the same capability. At its best, D-STAR provides a lot of functionality, at it's worse, it give more than most FM repeaters. But in no case will D-STAR be the only tool in my toolbag. All my VHF/UHF radios will be D-STAR since the will also do FM. But I'm going to include some HF solutions in my bag as well as anything else I can put in there. Ed WA4YIH From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of john_ke5c Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [DSTAR_DIGITAL] Re: new to the group > Only you can really answer your question, but let me pose a question for > you to think about. What if you deployed to a major incident (like > Katrina) in an area where D-STAR has been deployed heavily for Emergency > Communications, would you want your options for support limited by not > having D-STAR in your bag of tricks? What's the DStar network backup plan for major incidents like Katrina when the internet (fiber, cable, microwave) lose power, get flooded, etc.? What keeps the backbone going for your bag of tricks to keep working? 73 -- John [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
