WA8UNS Thomas Kimball Ridgefield Connecticut Resident will be heading back to the deployment with American Red Cross Fort Myers Florida this Saturday November 19th 2022.
WA8UNS Thomas Kimball Ridgefield Connecticut Resident deployment with the American Red Cross Disaster Services Technology (DST) IT Information Technology for Hurricane Ian From October 1st to October 17th 2022. I was tasked to set up Starlink SpaceX's Satellite Dishes with another DST IT volunteer at various locations such as St. Cloud Florida and Harlem Heights Florida and Punta Gorda Florida that Elon Musk to Provide Florida With Starlink Satellites in Response to Hurricane Ian. As we got about 10 of them to use. I was also tasked to teach other volunteers who would be traveling to various locations with snacks and food on how to set them up using the Starlink application on their smartphone. Testing and setting up a Starlink SpaceX's Satellite Dish with Ubiquiti Networks Unifi Security Gateway, USG-PRO-4 with a Ubiquiti Unifi Switch 24 PoE 500W with a Ubiquiti Networks UniFi UAP-PRO Wireless Access Point. And also testing with a Cradlepoint AER1600/AER1650 Series Cellular Gateway for one of our shelter locations. It was nice to get these Starlink Satellite Dishes set up so the public that was effected by the hurricane could get onto the internet wifi and be able to connect to there family members and also have a source of communications. Our American Red Cross DROHQ based out of the Chico's FAS Headquarters Fort Myers Florida.
