Sorry, for tripod mounts and any other mounts they will give. ---- Original message ---- >Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:21:41 -0400 >From: Ron Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [WISPA] 2.4Ghz gear needed for Rita and Katrina Efforts >To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> > >Hey Scriv, >Try Ronard industries in Mich City, Ind. - you must >knowthem. I'll call them on Monday. > >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] >________________ >-- >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
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