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Great to see the end-user adoption tick up here. IMHO, that should
be the #1 priority for HamWAN at this stage.<br>
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I would like to see the Everett branch online, and it looks like it
may have a path. Who can I talk to, to make that happen?<br>
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Do the RC folks run regular comm checks? Should they get a
conference bridge for their ops?<br>
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You may also wish to send your message to the official PNW DMR group
here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://dmr.groups.io/g/PNW">https://dmr.groups.io/g/PNW</a><br>
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--Bart<br>
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<div dir="ltr">On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 6:43 PM Randy Neals <<a
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<div dir="ltr">FYI,<br>
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Today I attended KC Red Cross in Seattle with Frank,
K7RSD.<br>
They operate a Red Cross Disaster Services radio room in
the basement of the Seattle RC building and have a 50'
tower on the roof with VHF and HF antennas / station.<br>
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We installed a Mikrotik SXQ on the tower pointing at
Beacon-S3. The path is short/visual and about -65dBm / 7
Mbps up/down.<br>
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We deployed a small ethernet switch and HamWAN / Seattle
ACS IP Phone in the RC radio room, all of which can run on
building generator system.<br>
Tested SIP phone with Seattle ACS / Seattle EOC. (HamWan
ext 8081)<br>
<br>
Red Cross team is interested in connectivity from Seattle
to Spokane.<br>
Apparently Spokane is a staging area for moving disaster
assistance west to Seattle. I advised nothing near term,
but that longer term something is likely to develop re Ham
Networks to Spokane. <br>
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I also recognize that the disaster potential/risk factors
for E Washington are different than for W Washington.
Having a HamWan network extend over the mountains to
Yakima/Wenatchee and relying on public Internet to then
reach Spokane is likely workable as the typical Earthquake
scenario for Puget Sound that emergency planners work to
isn't likely to affect infrastructure in Eastern
Washington.<br>
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The Northwest Region Red Cross is HQ in Seattle. There are
branch/chapter offices in Kennewick, Spokane, Bremerton,
Bellingham, Everett and Tacoma.<br>
Most have a disaster service radio station.<br>
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If you have an interest in helping your local Red Cross
chapter office with a connection to HamWAN, I can put you
in touch with hams at the Seattle regional office and
perhaps there is a pull-through effort to get more of the
braches on the network.<br>
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For our DMR friends...<br>
There may be a good opportunity to support NW Red Cross
disaster services via DMR talk groups. Given the wide
reach of DMR, that might be a tool the RC could have in
their kit. The wide spread nature of Red Cross offices and
regions, seem to be a poster-child use-case for PNW DMR.<br>
<br>
Randy<br>
W3RWN<br>
Seattle<br>
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