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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Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay@impulse.net
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