Eclipse ham prep

[Bryan Stephens]

All

I am the PTS area representative for FEMA regions 3 and 5. If anyone knows
of an eligible organization that might be interested in GETS/WPS/TSP service
please feel free to send them my way. Unfortunately GETS/WPS is one of the
best kept secrets in emergency communication.
Thanks

73
Bryan
KG4UPR

Bryan A. Stephens, P.E. (MD Lic. No. 20485)
PTS Area Representative (PAR)
Regions 3 and 5
Office: 703-433-1905

>E-911 calls will generally preempt normal cell phone traffic (or have 
>access to some standby capacity) on mobile networks.  The mobile 
>networks can also free up radio capacity on cell sites by dropping or 
>reducing bandwidth allocations for data traffic.
>
>I got a chance to see some interesting cell network usage data during an 
>earthquake in New Zealand some years ago.  (I was working for 
>Alcatel-Lucent at the time, and they had a bunch of their equipment in a 
>mobile operator's network in NZ.)  The earth moves, everyone picks up 
>their phone to call someone.  The network remained stable because those 
>signaling components were engineered for overload situations.  Usually 
>the weakest link is control plane/signaling traffic since the radio 
>channels can easily be reallocated very quickly.
>
>This is also ignoring any GETS capability that might exist in those 
>networks.    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_Emergency_Telecommunications_Service
>
>louie
>wa3ymh
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