Disaster strikes and Internet down, who you going to call?
When disaster strikes, for example Hurricane Katrina, normal communication channels fail. Certainly don't count on telephone systems, wired or wireless, to stay up.
The Internet, often thought of as unkillable, also can and does fail. Two weeks after Katrina, over 100 Internet networks were still down in Louisiana.
So who handled the emergency communication? Once again amateur radio operators. The call went out from my club for volunteers to carpool south to the disaster area to help, and if I was still single I might have gone. Several others did. Just like after 9/11
Excuse me while I go maintain my antennas - all 30+ of them. I'm serious - I putting on my climbing belt, and walking out to my radio towers as soon as I hit "Publish."
Partially from a PC Mag article by John C Dvorak.
The Internet, often thought of as unkillable, also can and does fail. Two weeks after Katrina, over 100 Internet networks were still down in Louisiana.
So who handled the emergency communication? Once again amateur radio operators. The call went out from my club for volunteers to carpool south to the disaster area to help, and if I was still single I might have gone. Several others did. Just like after 9/11
Excuse me while I go maintain my antennas - all 30+ of them. I'm serious - I putting on my climbing belt, and walking out to my radio towers as soon as I hit "Publish."
Partially from a PC Mag article by John C Dvorak.
posted by Ted Demopoulos at 9:41 AM
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