Ryan, KC8PMX wrote:
I am gonna stab myself in the foot for this one before any of you all want
to, but what I think Lennie is trying to get at, is that nowhere in the
media has amateur radio taken any form of the spotlight on this event. I
was sick for the past six or seven days and spent alot of time home watching
tv between resting. Nowhere did I see anything mentioned about ham radio.

That dosen't mean that the hams were not involved. I would wager that
there were/are a lot of other volunteer orginizations involved also that
did not see any spotlite.

On a positive note, this would have been a great example of showing how
valuable ham radio is supposed to be. It wouldn't cost the arrl much to send
press releases of this to the major networks, Hell, I chip in for the stamps
if that is the case!!!!!! Remember, a good defense is a good offense! (
arrl claims to "defend" amateur radio)


This is one of those one in a million times I would even vaguely come close
to agreeing with Lennie the License-less. I think I am gonna have
nightmares now!

I saw on the news the other day, some homeland defense official (can't
recall who it was), was saying that they plan on making use of the
thousands of ham radio operators as part of homeland defense.