[WARC] Power Pole Transition - Supported Agencies

[Daniel Goltz]

Hi group.  Walt is right.  The LEC equipment is under contract and we don't 
want to tamper with that.  The ham equipment at the LEC is installed and 
will not be leaving there.  What we do want to do is check out the 
Sheriff's trailer and make sure we have compatability there, and within our 
own equipment so we can use existing power supplies and antennas.
Dan WK0W.

At 10:27 AM 9/4/2008 -0500, Walt Kelly wrote:
>Len and group,
>
>I have been of the opinion that we provide communications among groups that
>do not normally communicate (by radio) with each other. We do not operate
>their equipment, nor do they operate ours. We don't take crimpers and
>soldering irons to their equipment or vice versa.
>
>Public service agencies buy equipment and maintenance services from radio
>professionals who know their systems and have the equipment to maintain
>them. I don't think they would be responsive to suggestions that they modify
>their power plugs to match ours instead of Motorola's. How many times do
>they need to hook up to our stuff compared to the number of times they hook
>up to Motorola stuff?
>
>Our mission is to be able to assist them in talking to each other - using
>our own equipment. We have to be sure we can do that. If among us we want
>compatibility, that is one thing, making their equipment compatible with
>ours is a way different issue.
>
>The 800 MHz business is close to being a done-deal - a multi-million dollar
>deal. Supposedly it will give them "interoperability" and might reduce their
>need for our services. My bet is that we will still be needed to be there
>with a working communications system separate from theirs. They will have a
>computer-controlled, digital, fully "integrated" system on a band that needs
>lots of mega-buck repeaters with a full time system administrator to keep it
>running.
>
>On the other hand, we are an ad-hoc group that can set up and go on a very
>informal basis. That would make "seamless integration with at least the one
>or two key agencies served" very tough to accomplish.
>
>
>Walt
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: warc-bounces at lists.w0ne.org [mailto:warc-bounces at lists.w0ne.org] On
>Behalf Of Len Litvan
>Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:18 AM
>To: jarvis at jarviscomputer.com; W0NE Listserv
>Subject: Re: [WARC] Power Pole Transition - Supported Agencies
>
>Hi Clare,
>
>You are absolutely correct about the power cables and adapters we all
>should have in our "go bags".  I added the specific items below to the
>Wiki in the section about emergency communications.  Good subject for a
>Sunday night net also.
>
>Incidentally, these specific items are included in the cable set which
>is part of the club Power Pole transition project.  The project is a
>good deal (price) for hams wanting to be prepared to help when the chips
>are down.
>
>Somehow, however, I still believe we are not helping make an integrated
>system for emergency communications--integrated with the service
>agencies we support at the most fundamental level.  It seems that
>amateurs do our thing--the agencies served do their thing--and we take
>lots of diagonal cutting pliers, crimpers/solder, and lots of adapters &
>wires (and time) to make things work when the balloon goes up.  It seems
>that we ought to be able to have a more seamless integration with at
>least the one or two key agencies served.
>
>What do others think?
>
>Len
>
>PS.  In the meanwhile, since I can't control the agencies served--and
>maybe not influence the amateur community all that much--the best thing
>I can do is to personally have the power cables and adapters in my own
>go bag....
>
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Daniel L. Goltz
702 Spring Brook Dr.
Winona, MN 55987