Question regarding equiping my 2016 Kia soul with COMM Equipment.

Started by SM-Amdenton-KSWG, July 14, 2019, 11:55:13 PM

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Slim

Quote from: Eclipse on July 21, 2019, 04:15:31 AM
Quote from: Slim on July 21, 2019, 03:52:49 AMWith that setup, we could check in to one of the Tri Blade nets, as well as GLR and MIWG HF nets with no problems.

Ah yes, the enchanted strains of "no traffic over" from people who rarely show up to missions
and / or don't even have ES ratings
Does everything in your life have to be so negative, or did you just wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?


Slim

OldGuy

Quote from: Eclipse on July 21, 2019, 04:15:31 AM
Quote from: Slim on July 21, 2019, 03:52:49 AMWith that setup, we could check in to one of the Tri Blade nets, as well as GLR and MIWG HF nets with no problems.

Ah yes, the enchanted strains of "no traffic over" from people who rarely show up to missions
and / or don't even have ES ratings
Almost every voice on our local net is also heard on SAREX and mission base traffic.

Eclipse

Quote from: Slim on July 21, 2019, 10:52:37 PM
Quote from: Eclipse on July 21, 2019, 04:15:31 AM
Quote from: Slim on July 21, 2019, 03:52:49 AMWith that setup, we could check in to one of the Tri Blade nets, as well as GLR and MIWG HF nets with no problems.

Ah yes, the enchanted strains of "no traffic over" from people who rarely show up to missions
and / or don't even have ES ratings
Does everything in your life have to be so negative, or did you just wake up on the wrong side of the bed this morning?

Again, facts are neither positive nor negative, they simply are.

When you mischaracterize CAP all you wind up with is disappointment and retention issues.

In this case we have someone who apparently isn't even a member yet preparing to
outfit their vehicle for a non-existent mission use based on the same rhetoric
NHQ-DOK has been publishing for 20 years, with essentially zero change or effect.

When CAP went to narrow band and cut it's capabilities by 1/2 (or worse), the promise was
going to be USAF-funded replacements, much of which sat in the boxes for years at various
wing HQ's, literally going obsolete on the shelf, because Wing DOKs were reticent to
issue it for "reasons", still common to the situation today (considering it's largely the same people).

It wasn't until Katrina exposed CAP's lack of deployed equipment that the USAF stepped in
and pushed wings to issue stuff, and even then it happens in drips and drabs, based largely on
the TOA (vs. actual need), and still in far too many hands that never leave the house.

Why?  Because they were willing to setup the infrastructure at their home so it could be "confidence checked".

The HF situation is far worse, especially since "whoever" chose those ridiculous traffic cone antennas,
which no one who is still intending to procreate would ever put on a POV, so they are largely
relegated to COVs, which are rarely deployed based on need or demographics, and almost always
based on "Tim's mom said it's OK to keep it in her driveway."

The same goes for the HF bases stations.

The undeniable fact, discussed here often, is that, assuming it ever was a "backbone of communications for the
US", CAP hasn't been for at least 20 years, and is never going to be again.  There isn't enough interest and there
isn't enough need.

The directive that every Unit CC have a through-channel via radio to contact Wing and NHQ? About every 6 months
the call goes out, plans are submitted, then nothing is done, assuming they are ever even read. Which doesn't even address the
"why" and "what" the average non-ES unit CC of a cadet-focused Composite squadron needs to be in contact with NHQ
in national communication blackout scenario.

We carry radios with 100 channel spaces and still use CC1 for the majority of use, and take a radio to another wing and
good luck getting it to inter-operate (despite years of directives regarding "national channel plans").  Why?
Well, for starters, the airplanes have limited capabilities, which then shapes the rest of the use.

Digital turns everyone into Donald duck, and good luck using it if you're not in the same room, and let's not
even get started regarding the fiction of encryption.  As if Putin cares about Delta Flight going to chow.

Members can't buy reasonably priced radios like the Baefongs because "someone" "decided" they don't meet the published spec,
you can't load encryption on PORs, again for "reasons", so getting their hot hands >on< a radio for more then the
icut practical is out of the reach of the average member.

CAP comms have their place, and when implemented properly are an effective tool in the bag, but far too often they
are actually a mission impediment and take way too much focus from the actual mission.

The "fix", like everything in CAP, is complex and involves money, politics, money, fiefdoms, money, vendor agreements,
and lots of "If I give you one of my incubators, I'll only have two."

At least if we tell it like it is, people can't say they were sold a bill of goods.

"That Others May Zoom"

Eclipse

And CAP is also in the early stage of going back to Motorola, and from what I understand
the results of testing the first round of the new equipment has been "less then stellar".

"That Others May Zoom"

CAP9907

21 yrs of service

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