{"id":1997,"date":"2010-07-14T21:12:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T21:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/07\/14\/2010-7-14-a-quick-question-in-which-i-ask-about-emergency-communicatio-html\/"},"modified":"2010-07-14T21:12:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T21:12:12","slug":"2010-7-14-a-quick-question-in-which-i-ask-about-emergency-communicatio-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/2010-7-14-a-quick-question-in-which-i-ask-about-emergency-communicatio-html\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Question In Which I Ask About Emergency Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/ham_card.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bobtherieau.com\/images\/blog\/ham_card.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Friends,<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a nifty article at physorg.com about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news198298057.html\">turning existing mobile phones into their own network<\/a> during emergencies when the local infrastructure has gone down. Apparently, it can be as simple as turning on the WiFi radios in smartphones and allowing them to find each other to set up an ad hoc network automatically. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milehighradioclub.org\/\">These guys<\/a> would definitely be interested in something like that, but it remains to be seen if <a href=\"https:\/\/www.att.com\/olam\/loginAction.olamexecute?goto=welcome\">these guys<\/a> would.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Would you be up for installing a bit of software on your phone (even if you had to pay for it) to enable it to be a node in an emergency communications network? How much would you be willing to pay? A buck? Five?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; bob<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Friends, There&#8217;s a nifty article at physorg.com about turning existing mobile phones into their own network during emergencies when the local infrastructure has gone down. Apparently, it can be as simple as turning on the WiFi radios in smartphones and allowing them to find each other to set up an ad hoc network automatically. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/2010-7-14-a-quick-question-in-which-i-ask-about-emergency-communicatio-html\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Quick Question In Which I Ask About Emergency Communications&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[32],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobtherieau.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}