I agree with you Mickey!

I found it interesting that the local ham EMCOMM group in my county, (they gave up on Oregon ARES), is now using the Slack phone app to coordinate during training exercises, and is an official part of their "phone tree" in case of an emergency.

What really makes this laughable is that the cell tower closest to my house is connected to the internet solely through a Comcast copper cable line, just the same as my house. There is a single fiber that brings the signal over the mountain from Beaverton, OR, about 30 miles away. If a car or truck hits a pole anywhere along that route and knocks out Comcast, there goes my internet, and my cell service also. There is no redundancy on the Comcast fiber line. "If all else fails" does mean "amateur radio", not relying on the internet! ;-)

73;

Mike

W7VO

On 04/20/2022 9:12 AM Baker, Mickey, N4MB (Dir, SE) <mbaker@arrl.org> wrote:

This occurred with no notice to me nor the field organization in the Southeastern Division where the National Hurricane Center resides and many destructive hurricanes occur, here is the Amateur Radio track of the National Hurricane Conference.

The ARRL and ARES are grossly underrepresented in this track.

How is this led by someone who is the leader of the National Hurricane VoIP net? “When all else fails” means that the Internet is not likely operational, IMHO.

Ken Bailey’s preso starts at 3:25:10, some someone at HQ knew.

https://youtu.be/sTKJz9FpSAs?t=12305

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Mickey Baker, N4MB

Director, Southeastern Division

ARRL, The National Association for Amateur Radio®

Phone (561) 320-2775

Email: n4mb@arrl.org

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