By Dan KB6NU, on October 1st, 2011
From the ARRL website:
09/29/2011
On September 12, at the invitation of?White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard A. Schmidt, W7HAS, the ARRL briefed several members of the National Security Staff on the capabilities of the Amateur Radio Service to communicate in emergencies. ?The White House is looking for ways that the great work of Amateur Radio operators can continue to support emergencies in the future with particular attention to increased use and dependency on internet based technologies,? Schmidt said. The ARRL presentation, conducted by Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Corey, W5MPC ? along with President Kay Craigie, N3KN, and Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ ? focused on Amateur Radio?s current and evolving capabilities to provide Internet messaging connectivity.
Wouldn?t you have loved to sit in on this presentation? Perhaps we can get the ARRL to post the slides to the website someday or maybe even make it the focus of a QST article. As I?ve mentioned before, it doesn?t appear to me that anyone is working on technical advances for emergency communications the way TAPR is working on software-defined radio and AMSAT is working on satellite communications. Maybe (hopefully?) I?m wrong about that, though.
Source: http://kb6nu.com/arrl-briefs-white-house-on-ham-radio/
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