The Holy Church of Emcomm

[N8YX]

Eddie nails it squarely...St. Whacker and the acolytes will be along shortly with howls of indignation.

[KC2UGV]

It sounds like another uncoordinated attempt to be important. Although the desire to help is there, I fear that in an emergency all these with donated radios will only add to the confusion and more than likely disrupt coordinated efforts. Then again, I could be full of shit as a Christmas Goose.

Eddie nails it squarely...St. Whacker and the acolytes will be along shortly with howls of indignation.

Ayep.

I think many hams miss the most important thing about emcomm: Decentralization. You want to support emergency communications? Build a repeater. Build a packet node. Right at home!

You get the benefit of learning how these integral systems work, and you put your sweat equity into keeping them online.

Multiple, uncoordinated, centralized resources just mean that more of these centralized resources get taken out, and the ones left standing become saturated.

[NQ6U]

Ayep.

I think many hams miss the most important thing about emcomm: Decentralization. You want to support emergency communications? Build a repeater with a standby power source that will last more than a couple of hours.

Fixed that for you. We've got a shit-ton of repeaters around here, most of which will be useless in a real disaster because they're limited to either a few of hours of battery power or none at all.