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-----Original Message-----
From: Cecil Crider [mailto:we8d@pasty.com]
Sent:
To: Jim Weaver
Subject: Hurricane Katrina item
Jim:
The PCMag web site did
not have article so I am retyping it for you.
PC Magazine
Inside Track
by John C. Dvorak
Two weeks after Hurricane Katrina,
it was reported that over 100 internet networks were still down
in Louisiana, as well as another dozen elsewhere that had been in the path of
the hurricane. So much for the notion that the Web is impossible to kill. Hard
to have an Internet with no power! WiMAX and other solutions are useless, too,
though I suppose a generator would be useful for WiMAX. Whatever the case, the most overlooked
participants in the Katrina relief effort were the ham radio folks,
who were doing whatever they could as ad hoc emergency dispatchers, creating
their own network within the system. These dedicated persons pride themselves
on their ability to do worldwide communications under adverse conditions, and
the ARRL (Amateur Radio Relay League) and its members, as well as others, were
a big part of the aid effort. Of course, since amateur radio is anything but
trendy in today's Xbox, gene-splicing world, there
was zero coverage of its contributions in the mainstream press, and these
people are not the greatest self--promoters. At least some of us are paying
attention. Good
work, guys! Bush should be giving medals to you all.
Cecil, WE8D
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John and see if he would allow you to relay his thoughts to the FCC (BPL
guru's) and congress/representatives.