Welcome To Wave Alert Network Discussion Group

Greetings!

This forum is provided as a means to ask questions and share ideas regarding how to communicate emergency information to those that need it. Monitoring systems for tsunamis, earthquakes, and large weather events currently exist or are proposed. The real challenge is to convey the information they produce quickly and reliably from these systems to the people that need it whether it's a fisherman living on the coast of Thailand or a resort manager on the beaches of Bermuda.

It includes discussion of:

-the use of satellite, broadcast (radio/TV), mobile/cellular telephones, Amateur Radio, and the Internet for warnings and disaster communication

-establishing standards for warnings and disaster communication

-building radio,TV, and satellite receivers that can receive emergency warnings and disaster communications

-using voice, digital, and satellite capabilities of Amateur Radio for warnings and disaster communication

-how to localize dissemination of information to specific areas, countries, or regions

-response to the author's proposals on the WaveAlert.net Website
("WAVE" stands for Warnings About Viable Emergencies)

-other relevant topics and issues

We've had the technology and money to construct an emergency communications system for many years. Now, because of the horrific loss of life following the earthquake and tsunami in Indonesia, we have the will to do it. Let's seize the moment and seize the opportunity to make it happen!

Wholeheartedly yours,

Dan Van Hoy
VR2HF/K7DAN
Hong Kong