Hi All,
Myself and a dozen others here in Northern Virginia and Maryland have
used 23cm DD mode to support the Marine Corps Marathon the past three
years. And will do it again in a week for this year's race. Some of us
are the operators at the aid stations on the course while others are
responsible for the three access points that will be supporting the aid
stations. We conducted a communications exercise on Columbus Day to make
sure we were all set. 23cm D-STAR DD mode has been very effective with
our served agency, the US Navy medics, who are very happy with the
ability for aid stations to get data and to load data into the main
databases. While we expect to run 9600 bps packet as a backup this year
it might be the last year we do this given the redundancy of three good
access points overlooking the course.
Mark WB9QZB loaded a three part file that is the briefing I gave at the
Chicago DCC a couple weeks ago discussing how we use digital
communications to support this Marathon.
73, Tom n4zpt
