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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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[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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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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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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From ICT for Peacebuilding (ICT4Peace) - posted by Sanjana Hattotuwa -In May this year, a colleague and I went to Nissankamallapura, Pollonnaruwa to strengthen online journalism capacities of a group trained in community radio production and had a decent production studio conveniently adjacent to an ICTA Nenasala. This groups was very interested in using the [...]
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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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. Originally published in Newsday - this via Skyscraper Safety.
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(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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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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