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Ron Wallace ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 10:35:40 -0500 >From: John Scrivner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [WISPA] 2.4Ghz gear needed for Rita and Katrina Efforts >To: NCS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > >The message at the bottom of this page is from Mac Dearman in Rayville, >Louisiana to our WISPA email list server. He is one of our trade >association members. As you can see he is having trouble getting what he >needs to continue helping folks in Louisiana.The U.S. Government should >consider a policy of funding first in situations like this where we have >a federally recognized trade group (501c6 non-profit) and then task us >with providing proper documentation and accounting to back up funding >later. People need our help right now. Along with Mac's message I have >copied excerpts from the Washington Post and New York Times telling the >story of what we are doing in Louisiana. We need money right now. If you >cannot fund us then please fund someone to continue doing what we are >doing. People need our help. > >Here are quotes from the Washington Post and New York Times: > >The Washington Post: ><http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090802058.html> >Wireless Networks Give Voice To Evacuees (September 9, 2005) > > Hurricane Katrina survivor Caprice Butler had been at a church > shelter in rural northeastern Louisiana for nearly a week when she > finally heard her husband’s voice on an Internet phone running on an > improvised wireless network. > > “I was just overjoyed,” she said yesterday, tearing up as she spoke > outside the church in the farming town of Mangham, about 200 miles > from her flooded New Orleans home. “Words can’t explain how I felt.” > > … > > The network at Mangham Baptist Church was the brainchild of Mac > Dearman, a wireless Internet service provider who was driving past > the church last week when he saw a group of parked cars, realized > they were people who had fled the hurricane and set about providing > relief, including food, clothing and online access. > > Dearman hooked up a radio transmitter near the church and linked > that to a voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) telephone and a > computer, and suddenly the dozens of people taking refuge at the > church had the ability to reach out to the outside world. > > Mostly, they are searching for loved ones and filling out Federal > Emergency Management Agency forms to get disaster aid. > > “They just call from shelter to shelter to shelter looking for their > kids or for their daddies or their brothers because they got > separated, and they are just finding each other in the last few > days,” Dearman said, adding that people were often overwhelmed when > they connected. > > New York Times <http://www.radioresponse.org/wordpress/? page_id=22> > (September 18, 2005) > > When Katrina hit, (Radio Response’s Paul) Smith and other > volunteer communications enthusiasts rushed down to Louisiana. > In Rayville, his team of techies clambered up a local tower to > blast WiFi signals 50 miles through the countryside; their > signals reached refugees clustered in church basements with > computers but no Internet connections. “We’re trying to make > sure families can contact each other, and get online to register > with FEMA’s Web site,” Smith told me. > >-------- Original Message -------- >Subject: Re: [WISPA] 2.4Ghz gear needed >Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 00:16:17 -0500 >From: Mac Dearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> >To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> >References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <012301c5c05b$61026130 [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >Hello list, > > I am again in the position to ask direction for acquiring more gear >to be installed in the Gulf towns on the Mississippi coast. I need Aps, >CPE, Jumpers, enclosures, mounts, tape, mastic, tripods for >roofs.....etc. Do any of you know of a manufacturer that is willing to >donate these goods? If you have a supplier hit them up and give me their >name..etc > > It seems like I would have some funding by now, but I guess its the >waiting game thing going on. Sooner or later FEMA is going to have to >come across with the doe! > >Thanks > >Mac Dearman > >Maximum Access, LLC. > >www.inetsouth.com > >www.radioresponse.org > >318-728-8600 - Rayville > >318-303-4229 > >318-303-4231 > >318-450-4349 - Monroe, La > >318-303-4227 - NOC > > > > > > > > > >-- >WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > >Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ Ron Wallace Hahnron, Inc. 220 S. Jackson St. Addison, MI 49220 Phone: (517) 547-8410 Mobile: (517) 605-4542 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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