[OZAPRS] Melbourne APRS Digipeater Status

[Howard Small]

Yes.  It became obvious during Yasi that while the emergency services 
have their communications systems there is nothing to support the 
community once the phones and cellular systems die. We (Cairns Amateur 
Radio Club) are currently looking at structuring a network to provide a 
facility for the community when/if the public communications network is 
killed for an extended period so they can get messages to 
family/friends/whatever outside the disaster area. It would be good if 
that could be a two way system but one way is the initial plan.

Our planning is based on voice systems but a packet system would have 
significant advantages over voice.

howard
VK4BS

On 25/03/2011 7:59 PM, Andrew Rich wrote:
> Can u think of other uses for packet than exist at the moment ?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
> Andrew Rich