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Title: ARRL BoD Meeting Highlights - "Committee Reports" Post by: Pete, WA2CWA on February 03, 2006, 05:51:41 PM The Committee reports from the January BoD meeting are now available for review. Go here for the thrill and excitement:
http://www.arrl.org/announce/reports-2006/january/ Title: Re: ARRL BoD Meeting Highlights - "Committee Reports" Post by: WA3VJB on February 03, 2006, 08:07:13 PM Annex A to Document #9 ARRL Board of Directors January 2006 Meeting Report of the Media and Public Relations Manager As previously reported in many places, the situation in which Amateur Radio played a critical role in the hurricane rescues and relief resulted in over a thousand media hits. These ranged from small local papers right up to the New York Times, Boston Globe, Atlanta Journal, Washington Post, and other major newspapers. In addition, Amateur Radio was praised in reports by CBS, MSNBC, Fox and other television news – just about everyone but CNN. [/tt] Title: Re: ARRL BoD Meeting Highlights - "Committee Reports" Post by: w3jn on February 04, 2006, 12:49:37 PM Not to mention the ARRL web page during the immediate aftermath of the storm. No info on nets, what hams did, nothing >:(
Title: Re: ARRL BoD Meeting Highlights - "Committee Reports" Post by: WA3VJB on February 04, 2006, 03:04:54 PM Yeup, you got it John, the best, early, detail we "the media" were able to get from the group in Newington was "providing support for emergency centers" uh-huh, like sitting around and drinking their coffee. AMfone - Dedicated to Amplitude Modulation on the Amateur Radio Bands
Actrually, we did an interview with the National Hurricane Center ham station head, and what we SAW was inbound message traffic being handled over computer terminals. A little earlier we had some storm tracking information, that was cool, but there was damn little radio traffic to monitor FROM the region on any and all known net frequencies. Most of what we heard was volunteer Kilocycle Kops stepping up, anonymously of course, to chase others off the declared disaster zone, if you catch my drift. No wonder the NGOs want their own comms network, secure, portable and agile. We saw that internet group put up Wi-Fi links to great effect, superceding the role "ham radio" used to enjoy. If we were collectively wise, we would recruit and train computer guys like that in the art of emergency installations. They shouldn't have to re-invent the wheel as to how to get an ad hoc system up and running. The only difference would be the frequencies and hardware, you know? Instead, the group in Newington wants to turn ham radio into the internet, oh, I see now ! LISTENING IN VAIN Unidentified television network staffer listens to "Katrina" emergency traffic frequencies for comms from the area that never were heard. (http://www.wa3vjb.com/pics/QRV-Katrina.jpg) |