[amsat-bb] Disaster

[Michelle Thompson]

NVIS actually works really well here in SoCal with all the weird terrain.
It's part of local emergency communications plans and all.

This experiment under discussion supports the development of communications
resources that address a threat model of widespread natural disasters or
widespread communications emergencies. It's obviously frail in the face of
a global satellite outage. No communications system is completely robust.

For example, when the power goes down here, almost every amateur repeater
simply shuts off. There are very few that have functional backup power.
Simplex isn't really effective with canyons and mountains, so there's
simplex mapping exercises and efforts to keep backup power systems working.
These efforts have not been 100% effective.

It's a process to be prepared.

-Michelle W5NYV




On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 1:21 PM John Kludt via AMSAT-BB <amsat-bb at amsat.org>
wrote:

> Scott,
>
> Easy - 40m or 80m NVIS and a digital mode  probably what we should be
> practicing with, anyway.
>
> John
>
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 2:53 PM Scott Millick via AMSAT-BB <
> amsat-bb at amsat.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > What happens ift he disaster is the communications sats are destroyed.
> > Then what
> >
> > Scott k9SM
> >
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