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What do you do for EmComm?	Reply
by KC2OZU on August 9, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
I'm an EMT, and a relatively new ham, lookign to do some emergency communications work. I was wondering what people involved in EmComm actually do? I know that our local group (a few towns over) does a lot of parades, etc. but what about actual emergencies? In my own town, there are a few hams trying to get involved, but from what I hear they really aren't selling the idea of ham radio in emergencies very well. From the standpoint of an EMT, the greatest thing I can think of is data. Our town has a small volunteer ambulance corps, and as such we don't have MDT's (Mobile Data Terminals), and I thin it would be wonderful if, at a disaster, we could have hams setup a data link between the field, the hospitals, and the command post.

RE: What do you do for EmComm?	Reply
by AA4PB on August 9, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
I think the major (certainly not all) use of ham radio is 2M FM voice between the EOC and the shelters.

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by AA4PB on August 9, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
I have to ask, if you don't use MDTs on a daily basis are your EMTs going to be able to use them during a disaster if hams provided them?

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by KC5SAS on August 9, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
[quote]I was wondering what people involved in EmComm actually do? [/quote] I am the RACES officer for my Parish responsible for coordinating the recruitment and training of Aux radio operators to staff the EOC and shelters during or after declared emergencies. We primarily use 2 meter voice.

RE: What do you do for EmComm?	Reply
by KC2OZU on August 9, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
The idea behind the MDT's was either to have some people (EMT's or hams) trained to use them and pass data messages, or (more likely) to setup an ad-hoc wireless network of laptops or PDA's which would access a central radio data gateway.

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by KE4SKY on August 10, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
The Virginia Digital Emergency Network uses both AX.25 at the user level and TCP/IP file compression for backbone forwarding to link 21 hospitals of the Central Virginia Disaster Planning Committee as well as field offices of the State Medical Examiner for public health and mass casualty incidents. On the local level digital modes are widely used for wildfire, search & rescue, shelter communications and damage assessment communications, both data and imaging between incident command posts and local EOCs. In a well developed EmCom scenario data modes would be used at least in parity with voice.

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by KS4VT on August 11, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
I'm the RACES officer for Palm Beach County (FL) and the Public Safety Radio Administrator. Our EmComm is all over the band from HF to 800 MHz. and the majority of the communications is on VHF as the County sponsors 5 repeaters (4V and 1U) that reside on 4 it's 13 communication sites.

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by W0IPL on August 11, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
DATA! If it is a "local" incident (less than about fifty miles) we use a lot of Packet. If it is large scale then HF PACTOR, Gateway and WinLink2000 (not in that order). (V/U)HF is fine for "in close" (DUH!) but to reach over mountains (Colorado has some of those) it takes HF with an NVIS.

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by KC8VWM on August 14, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
By the way Pat, I enjoyed reading the excellent information about NVIS antenna's on your website: http://www.w0ipl.net/ECom/NVIS/nvis.htm "Field tests have proven that the best NVIS efficiency is obtained at the ten to fifteen foot height for frequencies in the 40M to 75M range." So just for the heck of it, I built one of these this weekend while on a camping trip. It's based on the "Buddipole N-Vee" version found here: http://www.w0ipl.com/ECom/NVIS/cbp-nvis.htm It basically uses a lightweight tripod and 15' telescopic aluminum "extension pole." (look in the "marine section" for these poles.) The NVIS antenna's described are just like the website says. Very portable, quiet, but yet sensitive recieve. Good info on Pat's site. Check it out. 73 Charles - KC8VWM

RE: What do you do for EmComm?	Reply
by AD5TD on August 14, 2006	Mail this to a friend!
I am the Emergency (Communications) Coordinator for my county. I designed and constucted a Radio Room for our new EOC. It was s blast. We are still adding to it. Next is an SCS Pactor 3 modem and a Kam TNC for packet. We don't have many ops (4 uncluding me) but we try. 73, de AD5TD

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