EmComm East - Rochester New York - 2008 - Growing APRS value to the First Responder Community

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Growing APRS value to the First Responder Community

What role *does* APRS play in emergencies? What role *could* it play? The answers to these two questions will be explored more deeply in this presentation – designed to engender both fresh thoughts and strategies in hopes of more closely connecting Amateur Radio and the needs of the official Emergency First Responders. The following topics will be covered:

APRS Situational Awareness
EOC's Need for Data
Existing APRS telemetry
The need for reliability
Setting “Reliability” Specs
Building to the Specification
Providing a fixed service
A deployable service, too?
Building trust, and expanding

Evhen Tupis directs product development and engineering for Nexus ISR, the manufacturer of the Nexus Hawk line of mobile broadband routers and gateways marketed toward the emergency first responder communities. He has been licensed since 1976 and is presently W2EV, an Extra Class licensee.

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