Re: [AusNOG] Fwd: IAA Disaster Coordination - support for members and community affected by the fires

Hi All, Just sliding in on the back of this announcement and continuing the theme of support - it's worth noting that the VyOS project put out an announcement last week, stating that they will offer free subscriptions and access to their LTS images for organisations in bushfire affected areas.

Re: [AusNOG] Fwd: IAA Disaster Coordination - support for members and community affected by the fires

Thanks Nathan, While the South and Eastern states are burning, Broome has just been put on Cyclone Watch, anticipated to only reach cat 1, but cyclones are unpredictable, just like some fires and just like some humans. I have my portable gear ready and although technically against operating

Re: [AusNOG] Fwd: IAA Disaster Coordination - support for members and community affected by the fires

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Re: [AusNOG] Fwd: IAA Disaster Coordination - support for members and community affected by the fires

On Sat, 4 Jan 2020, Narelle Clark wrote: Has anyone heard from Ross in Albury? Thanks for the concern. I'm fine, and my home/office is an underground bunker with independent power and water so quite survivable. I've been an amateur operator since about 1975 and was one of the hams

Re: [AusNOG] Fwd: IAA Disaster Coordination - support for members and community affected by the fires

Hi Damien, Kai these are all good thoughts, and good to know https://wicen.org.au/ exists - we may need to liaise with them! Does anyone have any good graphs/diagrams/representations of the overall impact of the outages? Items I thought people will find useful in the coming days/weeks would be

Re: [AusNOG] Fwd: IAA Disaster Coordination - support for members and community affected by the fires

Hams would be in breach of operating conditions to be passing third party messages, so cannot really help the way you're thinking :( (join the HAM Radio Australia group on Facebook - this has been discussed to death). WICEN, where it exists, has been quite heavily ramped up for months and helping

Re: [AusNOG] Fwd: IAA Disaster Coordination - support for members and community affected by the fires

I think there are a few amateur radio operators on list, if they have the time and are able to assist does anyone have kit or assistance available in kind if they're able to any operator able to provide comms HQ or similar service in current mobile blackspots? On 3/1/20 6:47 pm, Narelle Clark

[AusNOG] Fwd: IAA Disaster Coordination - support for members and community affected by the fires

Folks This message went out today to the members of the Internet Association of Australia - with many ISP members and since we’re all technical people, offering practical help is in our nature. Hopefully we can get some of the local ISPs back on the air as soon as possible. FYI - it's intended to