Boy, it didn’t take the “Sad Hams” long to come out! Why anyone would belittle anyone or any group trying to do something good is beyond me. Excellent presentation and ideas. I’m in the process of coming up with something similar for our area. Small town with a few hams, but no club. And it’ll probably stay that way. But all responsible for the wellbeing of our community. I was thinking along the same lines with the equipment, a few differences because of no financial backing. On antenna’s, I was thinking of the same j pole, an end feed, and a vertical. Was happy to hear your thoughts and ideas.
Great presentation. Was solar charging of the batteries considered? Relying on gas generators has its own set of problems (fuel, noise, RF interference, maintenance, etc) .
While it's sort of understandable why organizations like this build go-boxes, I'll be perfectly honest in saying I think go-boxes are, in almost every use-case, an absolutely horrible idea. I'll give you three reasons why: First, every go-box project I've ever seen takes a perfectly manageable amount of kit and weight, and immediately turns it into a two-person lift. Second, that perfectly manageable amount of kit and weight that one could walk with, once placed in a transit case, is only transportable by vehicle. Third, all that kit always looks super squared-away and dress-right dress in a transit case: gathered and velcro'ed wires, inputs run on the opposite side as the outputs...an engineer's wet dream -- until the first time the operator has to troubleshoot a problem. Relying solely on generator power is not a recipe for success, either. Generators require gasoline of propane (... or diesel): this will almost always be problem in a disaster. Also, generators require maintenance at every short intervals -- many small generators require service every 100 hours, for instance.
Not to mention saying Winlink is essential. It’s not essential in my opinion. Requires a computer, extra power consumption, lots of extra cables to interface to the radio, and lastly typing is nowhere as fast as picking up a microphone and speaking what you need to convey as well as you have to hope the transmission is going be decoded on the other end in the 1st shot.
The last thing professional emergency personnel need is having to take care of a bunch of old, overweight, out of shape guys with radios, interfering in professional emergency operations. Please stay home and play with your radios.. leave it to the pros..
Boy, it didn’t take the “Sad Hams” long to come out! Why anyone would belittle anyone or any group trying to do something good is beyond me.
Excellent presentation and ideas. I’m in the process of coming up with something similar for our area. Small town with a few hams, but no club. And it’ll probably stay that way. But all responsible for the wellbeing of our community. I was thinking along the same lines with the equipment, a few differences because of no financial backing. On antenna’s, I was thinking of the same j pole, an end feed, and a vertical. Was happy to hear your thoughts and ideas.
Very nice presentation.
Great presentation. Was solar charging of the batteries considered? Relying on gas generators has its own set of problems (fuel, noise, RF interference, maintenance, etc) .
While it's sort of understandable why organizations like this build go-boxes, I'll be perfectly honest in saying I think go-boxes are, in almost every use-case, an absolutely horrible idea. I'll give you three reasons why:
First, every go-box project I've ever seen takes a perfectly manageable amount of kit and weight, and immediately turns it into a two-person lift.
Second, that perfectly manageable amount of kit and weight that one could walk with, once placed in a transit case, is only transportable by vehicle.
Third, all that kit always looks super squared-away and dress-right dress in a transit case: gathered and velcro'ed wires, inputs run on the opposite side as the outputs...an engineer's wet dream -- until the first time the operator has to troubleshoot a problem.
Relying solely on generator power is not a recipe for success, either. Generators require gasoline of propane (... or diesel): this will almost always be problem in a disaster. Also, generators require maintenance at every short intervals -- many small generators require service every 100 hours, for instance.
Not to mention saying Winlink is essential. It’s not essential in my opinion. Requires a computer, extra power consumption, lots of extra cables to interface to the radio, and lastly typing is nowhere as fast as picking up a microphone and speaking what you need to convey as well as you have to hope the transmission is going be decoded on the other end in the 1st shot.
The last thing professional emergency personnel need is having to take care of a bunch of old, overweight, out of shape guys with radios, interfering in professional emergency operations. Please stay home and play with your radios.. leave it to the pros..
lmao ok kid