If you're interested in the CERT topic and feel you have a reasonable appreciation for how AREDN might serve the needs of this community, then send me an email and let's talk about maybe making you the moderator for this ACE.
Andre, K6AH
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Andre, K6AH
<callsign>@aredn.org
Please welcome Keith, AI6BX, as the new moderator for the CERT Forum!
Keith is a highly motivated AREDN mesher currently building out AREDN infrastructure in San Bernardino County, California. He is also real active in local CERT and AUXCOM groups and should bring structure to this important ACE forum.
Andre, K6AH
Keith - AI6BX
I will try to get someone in our group to sign up here and offer ideas we can all push around. Thanks again. Joe W6BGR
I am involved in a CERT class this weekend and will be sharing about Mesh and amatuer radio to the class tomorrow.
73,
Keith - AI6BX
We are soon upgrading to M5Rocket w/ 120 degree panel antenna
M2Rocket w/ 120 degree Panel antenna
M3NBridge w/ parabolic dish
Ubiquiti PoE 5 port VLAN switch
Upgrade should happen in the next couple weeks.
thank I you for sharing what you currently have in place and what your plans for upgrading are. I am working on creating a Google map of the current buildout taking place in the Inland Empire. You can see most of what is currently in place on the AREDN map though we have new operators placing nodes at their homes almost weekly right now.
i would love to get involvement from more of the So Cal CERT teams and possibly consider creating a map highlighting where the CERT teams and members are highlighted. It might also be of value to identify who in this group have mobile nodes and what equipment they have available to link in the field. One piece of equipment I hear discussed quite frequently is Web EOC. This is a great piece of software, but as its name implies, it is completely dependent on the Web. I am looking for options that would be Mesh deployable to support operstions in the field with realtime feeds to EOCs. As this builds out the value would be quickly sharing municipality info across counties. Do you see value in this? Have you seen any compact packages that might support this or be a staring point? I am thinking of this as a project for my son and some of his college buddies.
Keith
I will check this out.
I can get you a contact off line.
Andre
Keith
Greetings. My name is James (Jim) Good, kd5vxh. Home is in North Central Texas near the border between Parker and Tarrant Counties. The physical home is in Tarrant County. I am Sky Warn trained in both counties and help both in some of the public service events the county RACES agency sponsors. I also am a member of the Parker County CERT group and help with communications there. There was a message last week about an introduction session or training session for digital modes to be held in a city in Dallas County, about 50 miles east of where I live. For the other CERT members in Parker County, the distance would be over 60 miles each way. Then you would need to add extra to the drive time for the added traffic. My question boils down to; would it be possible to request a training session for the Parker County CERT group (and possibly the Parker County radio club) at a location closer to Weatherford? That is the County Seat for Parker County. There is a college with meeting/lecture rooms that the CERT leader might be able to reserve and there are some other locations that could hold an audience of 60+ for a presentation. My personal email is jamesgood@charter.net. Thank you,
Jim Good kd5vxh
I would love to help you with your request for more convenient training in the Texas area however I am based in CA and am not familar with the message you are referring to. If you could direct me towards the message posting or give me a contact for the group, I would be more than willing to give my best effort to help coordinate a closer training or perhaps find someone closer to you.
73,
Keith