First, let’s get the details correct.

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The Internet is NOT going to fail. Just ain’t going to happen, it’s an impossibility because of the design.

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What CAN and WILL often happen is that YOUR connection to all or part of the Internet may fail. Or, the server that is hosting WebEOC may lose it’s connection to all or part of the Internet.

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So, If you have lost your connection to the Internet, but A DSTAR repeater with an Internet connection and the High Speed Data module still has its connection, then by using an ID-1 on your side, you can get access to WebEOC.

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If the WebEOC server has lost its connection, then things are kind of the same, but actually different because the normal IP address and DNS record used to access WebEOC are no longer valid. Give a good networking guy a little bit of incentive, and this is not hard to fix.

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Or, you can bypass the Internet completely by using 2 ID-1s as an Ethernet bridge. There’s a little bit of networking that have to be added to make it work, but it’s a pretty simple process.

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Two ID-1s talking to each other, is essentially the equivalent of a half-duplex crossover Ethernet cable running at 100 kbps. You can hook two computers together, but you also have to worry about things such as IP Addresss and DNS access.

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I’m pretty sure that I’ve run WebEOC of an ID-1 through a D-STAR repeater.? No big deal.

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Also remember that the coverage of the High Speed Data is not as great as DV mode. A 300kHz wide 10W signal just doesn’t do as much as a 6 kHz wide 10W signal.

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Ed WA4YIH

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