Well written, Jay! I'd be interested in hearing the results too.
Marina, KA6JWL
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 9:52 AM, Jay Hennigan jay@west.net wrote:
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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