Seeking Birds of a Feather for AREDN Deployment

To my Suffolk County, New York HAMS

My name Gary, KE2GS.    I am a Senior Technology Engineer at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York.   My background is mostly in UNIX/Linux but I have a working knowledge in communications.

There seems to be mesh nodes popping up here and there but there does not seem to be any county wide coordination.  If there is, I would like to participate, if not, I would like to begin the dialog. 

As you know, in recent years, there has been a few eye opening events on Long Island. After hurricane Sandy, services were down for days to weeks in some areas. I myself was without power for 12 days.   Being able to deploy a temporary or backup communications infrastructure is crucial in my mind. 

Sandy was mild on the disaster scale and there are bigger threats looming on the horizon.  We are overdue for a Carrington size geomagnetic storm that could take out the NE Grid for months and a category 3 or larger hurricane (Sandy was barely a category one hurricane)is over due as well.

I hope to work with the OEM offices in key cities, Fire and Ambulance stations,  CERT and ARES/RACES groups to create a backup network and a secondary deployable network backbone with basic services such as PBX, web services, messaging, email, DNS and more. 

I can’t do this alone.  So I am reaching out for assistance in making AREDN a reality in our area. 

I hope to hear from you soon.

73, 
Gary (KE2GS)