Where I can sell corrugated boxes in the Los Angeles/Orange County area?
Question:
Does anyone know where I can sell corrugated boxes in the Los Angeles/Orange County area? I have several hundred pounds that I want to try to sell.
Answer:
Look in the phone book under "movers" or "moving supplies"
and see if anybody says they purchase used boxes in their ad.
I found a place that way after my last move that bought my
boxes for around $100.
Best person to contact is Reed Whitten, AB4W, NC Section Manager. He will
be able to give you some insight on packet use during hurricane Fran that
visited us last September. I'm not sure how useful packet would have been
during and after the storm, though. Locally, we were without power for 5
days and had quite a bit of downed trees throughout the Triangle
(Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill). Most of us in the affected areas were
preoccupied with basic needs - getting drinkable water/ice, finding
nonspoiled food, clearing trees from roads and houses, finding places to
stay when houses were too damaged to live (which was very few instances
fortunately), finding chains saws/generators and building materials, etc.
Most of the amateur activity in Orange County was in support of Red Cross
at local shelters during the storm and assisting with damage assessment
afterward. We had a station activated at the 911 center of course and I had
the university hospital set up with a portable station that was not needed
(fortunately). The coast (abt 75 miles away) got hit much harder with
extensive flooding and coastal damage. I'm just trying to think how packet
would have helped in those areas - there really wasn't much of an
infrastructure left to use a packet system. An alternative might be to use
Pactor on HF - slower, yes, but can be implemented with mobile/portable HF
without need for a stable network.
I will say on a personal note (as an AEC) that field deployable packet has
a lot of advantages over voice but a lot of disadvantages as well,
especially the complexity issues of setting up field deployable packet
stations. We are beginning our packet implementation for Orange County
based on a DX Cluster node at University of North Carolina campus in Chapel
Hill and dedicated TNC's at the county Red Cross and 911 center.
Even if we had a substantial core number of hams who could deploy packet
stations in the field what kind of messages would be better passed by
packet as opposed to voice? What would the value of an Internet connection
be (if the Internet was even available in or around a disaster zone)?
The first level of traffic we're shooting for is the
mass of "hardcopy" traffic that is lengthy and detailed,
such as medical information, or requisition of supplies
and manpower, as opposed to tactical moving of supplies
or people. Tactical communications is much better done
on voice.
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