Disaster Plan
From Hack Manhattan Wiki
Scenarios
Power at Hack Manhattan
No power at Hack Manhattan
Requirements
Internal communications
News dissemination
Message service for the public
Power
Gel Cell/Sealed Lead Acid
12V sealed lead acid batteries have capacities up to tens of Ah. 12V gel cell batteries up to hundreds of Ah.
Solar
Communication
OLSR Mesh
OLSR is one of many open mesh networking standards, but is the one built in to OpenWrt.
Dialup
Amateur radio: voice
VHF and UHF do not provide enough range to cover the entire tri-state area. Voice communication would probably have to happen on 10 meters amateur radio or CB.
APRS
Amateur radio: data
APRS may not be reliable enough, for example because digipeaters and igates are down or because the communications nodes are too far away from the nearest digipeater. Direct simplex VHF and UHF does not provide enough range to cover the entire New York metropolitan area. We would probably have to resort to PSK31 on 10 meters.
