Integrating Internet Technology with Amateur Radio for Public Service Events

摘要

The APRS.fi site, combined with the APRS/AIS data, allowed a New York City amateur radio emergency communications team on the other side of the world to maintain a constant watch on their harbor boat traffic and the ferries themselves, then pass along that information to the coordinating repre sentatives of the event, the authorities in the EOC, and to their own radio operators stationed on both sides of the har bor. Combining resources such as these with traditional ham radio communications support can only increase the value of amateur radio operators to event sponsors and emergency managers.