Re: [SEC-ARES] Upcoming Red Cross Drill in November
Hi Bruce, From my perspective, VARA is a lower priority as most of us can already pass traffic through multiple sites using winlink via packet, software modems, telnet, and HF. A lot of initial work (setting up new or expanded gateways for another mode) and ongoing maintenance in an environment where many of us do not feel comfortable doing in person activities on site at Chapter that may make us vulnerable to Covid (did I mention we are mostly old folks)? And remote access to the Chapter network was never made available to any of the team to make this sort of thing easier to manage. I ran a packet repeater for years out of my qth and it got almost no usage. I took it down when my target site in Coronado went off line late last year. I for one am unwilling to run a full gateway and maintain it and its Internet access 24/7/365 (and I have only cellular data access here in Julian) ... or go to the effort to setup something "part time" and deal with bringing such services up and down whenever users want to test something. The only advantage I see to VARA for Red Cross, even though it is the latest shiny object, is speed improvement. To me, that is an incremental improvement, and that alone may simply not be worth the effort. I am not against VARA, I think it is solid technology, and it is getting adopted ... and maybe If we were starting from scratch, incorporating VARA might well make sense. Others may have other views on this .... this is just my 2 cents ... thanks greg
On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 2:02 PM Bruce <wa6dnt@...> wrote:
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