[Asterisk-Users] civil emergency comms: Asterisk + HAM

[Mike M]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 02:45:47PM -0700, Michael D Schelin wrote:
> BUT,
> let me tell you about how bad the southern CA. radio site owners are 
> becoming. We had a 4 day outage at a very large site where one of my 
> radios is located. None of them care anymore about backup power. This 
> happened this past week.  We took up our own Generator because the site 
> owner (a national site company) won't maintain an old one.  My friend (a 
> microwave isp ) fixed the site owners by adding oil and a new battery.  
> That will take us out!

Over the weekend I heard an account of the communications breakdown in
New Orleans.  Ham radio effectiveness was diminished because of a shortage of
"pre-positioned" generators.  

What I've learned from this thread is that integrating Asterisk and ham
radio is feasible and potentially useful.  

I also learned that essential infrastructure - repeaters - are
softening assets.

What's more, google hits for "asterisk ham" have increased
significantly and become useful.  This thread comes up #3 on Google.

Thanks everyone.
-- 
Mike