2021-05-10, 09:51:52
WINLINK
Yeah, I see names like PACTOR, ARDOP, VARA, et al, being promoted as alternative Winlink systems. Don't really know what they are, except I did see an ad for a very pricy modem from a company called SCS in Germany, who apparently owns PACTOR & requires a licence fee to use it. Yuk! Don't think I'll spend any more time (or any $$) on this until I see what the standard system will be.
EMERG RESPONSE
I'll just say - once more - that if GBARC is to contribute effectively to emergency response support going forward, we need to integrate with the national project now underway. None of us really know yet where the new "RAC Auxiliary Communications Service" & the new "Emergency Management Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Consortium of Canada (EMNCC)" are going. But it's not hard to predict they want to develop standard protocols so that NGO support to Emergency Managers is consistently provided.
EMNCC has a website but it doesn't have a lot of content yet. It does list the members, 14 including RAC. https://emncc.ca/
The next big opportunity to get involved is likely the next Provincial Emergency Exercise for Bruce Power. This should be in 2022, although COVID might cause a delay. Hopefully by then these committees will have done more than fill binders with meeting minutes, and will have given us some direction so that we can be prepared. In the past only Bruce Co. ARES was involved, but I really think the county-based ARES model is ineffective for Grey & Bruce.
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Dave, VE3WI
Yeah, I see names like PACTOR, ARDOP, VARA, et al, being promoted as alternative Winlink systems. Don't really know what they are, except I did see an ad for a very pricy modem from a company called SCS in Germany, who apparently owns PACTOR & requires a licence fee to use it. Yuk! Don't think I'll spend any more time (or any $$) on this until I see what the standard system will be.
EMERG RESPONSE
I'll just say - once more - that if GBARC is to contribute effectively to emergency response support going forward, we need to integrate with the national project now underway. None of us really know yet where the new "RAC Auxiliary Communications Service" & the new "Emergency Management Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Consortium of Canada (EMNCC)" are going. But it's not hard to predict they want to develop standard protocols so that NGO support to Emergency Managers is consistently provided.
EMNCC has a website but it doesn't have a lot of content yet. It does list the members, 14 including RAC. https://emncc.ca/
The next big opportunity to get involved is likely the next Provincial Emergency Exercise for Bruce Power. This should be in 2022, although COVID might cause a delay. Hopefully by then these committees will have done more than fill binders with meeting minutes, and will have given us some direction so that we can be prepared. In the past only Bruce Co. ARES was involved, but I really think the county-based ARES model is ineffective for Grey & Bruce.
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Dave, VE3WI