Disaster communications breakdowns
2003 May 3
I’m not convinced that our government is doing the right things to make sure our public agencies have reliable communications that will work in a disaster. The trend towards fancy trunked radio systems in the 800MHz band may simply be making already incompatible systems even more incompatible and far more unlikely to work during a major disaster.
Articles on this topic that you should read include “Interoperability Of Public Safety Communication Systems” (Popular Communications, November 2002), Fixing A Communications Breakdown, and Lessons Learned After September 11th.
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