by jonathansoroko on February 15, 2010
Communications-Applied Technology makes this ICRI-2P Incident Commanders’ Radio Interface I don’t know how long they’ve been making them — but this is the type of technology that New York City cops and firefighters had been demanding for years before 9/11—that, to a large extent, they still don’t have. So it would seem that, at least [...]
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command post radio,
Comms,
ICRI,
Interoperability
by jonathansoroko on February 4, 2010
[Many thanks to Bill Seidel of Revanche, a long-time ham operator, for his infinite patience in explaining ham and RF operations. We're going to try to keep reporting on ham operations in, to, and from Haiti.] KE2YK's Random Oscillations reports on ham radio efforts in Haiti. From ARRL Sends Ham Aid To Haiti: Even though the [...]
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Comms,
Connecting the Dots,
Emergency Response,
haiti,
Ham Radio
by jonathansoroko on January 23, 2010
In Danger In Numbers, On the Media Host Bob Garfield interviews Noam Schreiber of The New Republic (transcript here). Are large numbers of journalists displacing rescue workers and supplies, in part by competing for scarce resources on the ground? This is an excellent discussion, and typical for OTM, an outstanding weekly effort to provide feedbacks [...]
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Comms,
haiti,
HFN,
hfncenter,
NPS
by jonathansoroko on December 19, 2009
Zero Geography reports on a real-time game using GPS devices which has - for our purposes, interesting applications for coordinating SAR or other response efforts. From Zero Geography: GPS Real-World Gaming in Hybrid Space. A real-time, multiplayer, GPS game for mobiles is being played out in the real-world. The game, played by groups of four [...]
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Comms,
geodata,
GIS,
hastily formed networks,
Mark Graham,
Networks,
SAR,
Zero Geography Blog
by jonathansoroko on June 22, 2009
Another reminder of how effective government can be once it's decided to be vigilant:A construction crew working on an office building in Virginia in 2000 severed a fiber optic cable that wasn’t on anyone’s map. Apparently it was a ‘black line’ used for carrying secret intelligence data, according to sources who spoke recently with the [...]
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Comms,
Networks,
response time
by jonathansoroko on June 15, 2009
. Originally published in Newsday - this via Skyscraper Safety.
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Comms,
motorola
by jonathansoroko on May 31, 2009
(including US military naming conventions). Password GeneratorsI use the Infotech Random Password Generator; shareware well worth the price ($12) - freeware version only generates one at a time.Military Call SignsInternet Call Signs (searchable)Random Word GeneratorsCoyote CultSean Puckett's Random Word Generator (requires input list, then generates list based on input)fourteenminutes.com has a random Word Generator and [...]
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call signs,
Comms,
passwords
by Jon on November 7, 2008
We've been casting about for two-way radio vendors - and sophisticated advice. And found, for our purposes, an amazing oufit in FastRadios.com - based in Naples, Florida - but they sell at very competitive prices and on very competitive terms (extended warranties, for instance, on batteries as well as radios). After a long conversation with [...]
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Comms,
fastradios.com,
radio