Archive for November, 2008
Monday, November 10th, 2008
High Speed Multi Media (HSMM) is often referred to as being the Hinternet (Ham Internet), as it is primarily used under FCC Rules & Regulations Part 97. Under Part 97 commercial off-the-shelf equipment can be used at higher power and higher gain than the more common Part 15 802.11a/b/g operations.
The ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Don't Forget the Manual ...
Ever been in the situation during normal conditions (let alone an emergency operation) where you were trying to figure out a particular function that you knew that a piece of equipment (e.g. radio, repeater controller, generator, etc.) has, but just couldn't remember how ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Electrical power went out on the 4th of January 2005 at approximately 21:30 CST due to Ice Storm. The following is about dealing with winter storms and power outages that can occur any time of year.
OPERATION FROZEN ICEMAN- Better Prepared -
Automatic Standby Generator 220/110 VAC
Gas engine with alternator and battery ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Just like other living things there are good and bad times for dynamic paths that are taken.
One can opt to be static yet knowing dynamic paths will move you.
What does this mean to those that work in the area of emergency response?
Be ...
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Sunday, November 9th, 2008
Welcome Back the blog was offline while we migrated to a different server. Getting the database to cooperate in the transistion is always the toughest part.  We will see what we can bring back into the mix as time goes along.
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