Off-Grid Emergency Communications
One of the problems at any remote location where radios are set up is the need for reliable power. If hams are deployed in response to an emergency such as a fire, flood or tornado, there is no guarantee the the power grid will be functioning, so the hams must provide their own power. As Larry tells students at license and EmComms classes, “You can’t count on the infrastructure being in place. So the safest way is to figure that if we don’t bring it with us, it doesn’t exist.”
Read more at
http://wedothatradio.wordpress.com/2008/04/11/green-radio-we-do-that/
Related posts:
- Renewable Energy for Communications
- [Green-Trust Off Grid] Off-Grid in Uganda
- Build your own Emergency Power System
- Build your own Emergency Generator
- The NY Times on Living Off-Grid
