Dear SBARC Mailing List - 

As a person who in a previous career worked in the US Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on projects dealing with emergency communications, I am following this discussion with interest.  

My wife, Cathy Boggs (KD6LGG), is on the SBTV board of directors and they were very interested in partnering with the SBARC a few years ago in terms of merging emergency public access channel cable TV services with the amateur radio segment. However, as far as I know nothing concrete was undertaken. 

One possible avenue for the SBARC to promote greater public awareness would be to program segments on the SBTV public access channel.  These could include programming segments that outline how the public might prepare a family and business communication plan for use in the aftermath of a large earthquake or other large-scale infrastructure shut-down.  

Larry WA6MVJ


On Mar 13, 2015, at 10:01, Andrew Seybold <aseybold@andrewseybold.com> wrote:

Jay--Scottsdale was not involved, it was only North Arizona, so not sure why Scottsdale ARES would have anything to do with it.

BTW my comment about CenturyLink having to walk the route of the fiber came from the CTO of CenturyLink and the info about the outages from the 9-1-1 center, and also the press of that area. I also don't believe but I may be wrong that there is a phone company in the area served.

Since my article was mostly about last mile connectivity in the Santa Barbara area when I discussed it, how many paths to you have serving each of your customers, not your connections to the Internet but the pipe between your facilities and your customers facilities?

Best regards

Andy

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Sent: Friday, March 13, 2015 9:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [Sbarc-list] ARES activation needs, was: Redundant systems

For what it's worth, I sent the following to the Scottsdale ARC and ARES, I will report their response:

Subject:
Amateur radio utilization during Centurylink outage

Message:
Greetings!

I'm WB6RDV, President of the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club in California.

There's an ongoing discussion among area hams about the use of ARES and amateur radio during emergencies. We conduct regular nets and drills, but are very rarely mobilized by local government during emergencies.

One school of thought is that these events are rarely emergencies in terms of telecommunications infrastructure. As hams we aren't firefighters, paramedics, etc. As long as the regular communications networks are functional and not vastly overloaded, even if there is a major emergency, it isn't a communications emergency.

The Centurylink fiber cut in Arizona was a different beast. It was a telecommunications emergency and only a telecommunications emergency.

Both personally and as president of SBARC I would like to hear how, if at all, the local amateur community was utilized during that event and what lessons if any came out of it.

Vy 73,
WB6RDV

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