Just wondering if there were many stations out there who are hooked up to broadband? I know there are some that decided to do it so that they could look up weather reports etc online during incidents for about the same cost as having a dedicated line for dial up. Also sends pager messages quicker I believe as it doesnt have to dial up.
we are...
not too sure why at the moment, but should help when incident reporting online goes out to brigades
We could...if Telstras lines / exchange was good enough to have Broadband.........a large area of my district cannot get broadband (unless you got satellite...)
In terms of Government Grants for Broadband, we are classed as having third world phone lines, and hence qualify for the highest rebate from the Government, if we get satellite broadband installed... :|
And all this just 20 km from the GPO.
One day, we might even get broadband !! :-)
Pip
Thats what you get for living in mountain goat country Pip. lol, dont know how you fight fires in your area....
We have it,however Airsource doesnt have a feature for paging other than the dialup method from the computer,but very good for uploading to websites :-D
All you need is the pager ID and you can send it via email, so you don't need dial-up
Quote from: fire03rescue on November 27, 2006, 09:01:37 AM
All you need is the pager ID and you can send it via email, so you don't need dial-up
According to SOP 10.1 this is not allowed
Quote from: SA Firey on November 27, 2006, 09:03:47 AM
Quote from: fire03rescue on November 27, 2006, 09:01:37 AM
All you need is the pager ID and you can send it via email, so you don't need dial-up
According to SOP 10.1 this is not allowed
Interesting. In the new SES GRN/Comms course we teach about the email facility. Can be used by family members of the SES volunteer and as an 'not recommended' facility. Too many chances of wrong email address and too many points of failure. But it is available and hopefully the spelling or location names can be better than Link operators :wink:.
Yeah well we all know Link operators cant spell only have to see some of the messages going out to see thay dont type what they read back eh :evil:
Quote from: SA Firey on November 27, 2006, 09:03:47 AM
Quote from: fire03rescue on November 27, 2006, 09:01:37 AM
All you need is the pager ID and you can send it via email, so you don't need dial-up
According to SOP 10.1 this is not allowed
but since when does anyone seem to follow SOPs?
i regularly use the internet based paging site, as do many others around the place
Quote from: pipster on November 26, 2006, 08:45:57 PM
We could...if Telstras lines / exchange was good enough to have Broadband.........a large area of my district cannot get broadband (unless you got satellite...)
In terms of Government Grants for Broadband, we are classed as having third world phone lines, and hence qualify for the highest rebate from the Government, if we get satellite broadband installed... :|
And all this just 20 km from the GPO.
One day, we might even get broadband !! :-)
Pip
Maybe you need a Kombi van as an appliance....."Ive been everywhere man"
makes it appear you can get it anywhere :-D
I'd never get up the hills in hot weather!! :-D
And Ath, we fight fires fairly well in the hills, because most of us have one leg shorter than the other, so we can stand up straight on the mountainous slopes :-D
Pip
Ahh technology dont you love it :-D