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#51337 - 10/08/05 04:05 AM Re: Emergency information system
red_jeep Offline
Journeyman

Registered: 01/22/02
Posts: 54
Loc: Raleigh, NC
Nextel's "Direct Talk" feature reportedly allows off-network communications, but I cannot confirm the reliability of this operation first-hand. I also think you have to manually select this function, the radio does not automatically revert to it.

I have also heard anecdotal evidence that Nextel DirectConnect seems to get through when the networks are congested. Presumably due to the smaller amounts of data going through, and it is more "packetized" in nature.

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#51338 - 10/09/05 04:21 PM Re: Emergency information system
ki4buc Offline
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Registered: 11/10/03
Posts: 710
Loc: Augusta, GA
I always wondered what the morse code was that was coming out, it sounded ALOT like SOS.


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#51339 - 10/10/05 06:46 AM Re: Emergency information system
benjammin Offline
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Carpal Tunnel

Registered: 02/06/04
Posts: 4020
Loc: Anchorage AK
xbanker, it sounds like you and me been down the same road. Did you get the Samuel B. Morse award too?

I was in Pensacola for 18 months. One of the few CTR/Ms out there I hear. Did you ever go CCSOC?
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#51340 - 10/10/05 03:28 PM Re: Emergency information system
xbanker Offline
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Registered: 04/21/05
Posts: 484
Loc: Anthem, AZ USA
Ben-

PM'd you.
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#51341 - 10/10/05 04:28 PM Re: Emergency information system
Anonymous
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This fellow posts an interesting pager newsletter.
Brad Dye
Of particular interest and appropriate to this thread is the Issue #182 : Sept 30 edition. It seems that plain old two-way pagers continued to function quite well during the NOLA event. The article in question is about 1/2 way through that newsletter. I would also encourage reading some of the other issues before & after that date.

Best Regards,

Sandpine

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