Communications? Big problem

The Shreveport Times

Feds may create “Emergency Communications Chief”

Feds may create “Emergency Communications Chief”: "First Response Coalition Blog “Earlier this week, the House Homeland Security committee passed a bill (HR 5351) aimed at improving public safety communications interoperability. The “National Emergency Management Reform and Enhancement Act of 2006″ would mandate the creation of a national strategy for emergency communications and require the development of statewide interoperability plans and standards.”"

My future job. But I thought NCS was supposed to be doing this?

Shacktopus

Shacktopus

This is pretty cool...

Ten Thousand Satellite Modems For Disaster Recovery Organizations

Ten Thousand Satellite Modems For Disaster Recovery Organizations

Looks like sat modems are the new way to go...

More Schools Get Radios for Terror, Crises - Yahoo! News

More Schools Get Radios for Terror, Crises - Yahoo! News

What a darn waste of money...

FederalNewsRadio - WFED: FEMA Goes High-Tech for Storm Preparedness

FederalNewsRadio - WFED: FEMA Goes High-Tech for Storm Preparedness

Another intersting technology being deployed.

Satellite Email Vital to Better Emergency Response? - May 11, 2006 - Digital Communities

Satellite Email Vital to Better Emergency Response? - May 11, 2006 - Digital Communities

Quite an intersting article that talks about how vital email is during a disaster. They talk about how sats are not as easy to set up networks on the fly, but thankfully, Winlink 2000 is pretty easy to set up.

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I thought I should have less work...

What have I been up to lately? I've been busy doing too much school work for a Senior that has about 5 days left of school. I still have two PowerPoint projects that need to be done this weekend. Oh well, it will all be done soon enough.

About a week or so ago, I participated in a Hurricane Readiness Workshop up at DEMA for two days. We went over things like preparing checklists, NOAA products and a lot of other things. It was a very interesting class and I met a lot of people who would like to use amateur radio in their disaster response like the City of Newark, and the Delaware Dept. of Health and Social Services.

Also last weekend, I was at the Cape Henelopen Rocket Fest with Civil Air Patrol and the Lewes Amateur Radio Society (I spread my time evenly between both). I set up my portable Winlink box from Cape Henelopen State Park and it worked!

I finally had to present my STEM product. My Mom took video of it which you can see at http://www.kb3juv.com/winlink2k.htm. I received a 99 on the entire thing!

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