In article , JJ
writes:

Len Over 21 wrote:

No, but it is one of MANY in which radio amateurs have NOT
helped in the glorious, noble, and heroic services claimed by the
mythmakers and amateur propagandists.

While you desperately desire to keep the Myth of telephone service
collapsing entirely alive, that isn't true either. While IN an affected
area, the limitations of switching centers don't allow free calling all
around. However, one can call in from OUTSIDE the area. Obviously
the infrastructure was NOT helpless or "down."

For a period of several hours, there was no phone service going IN or
OUT of the area.

Your sentence is incorrect.

Anonymous one who has no amateur call, you cannot admit your
error. To do so would be against your mythology, the fantasy that
amateur radio always jumps in to save the day.

Blah, blah, blah, more lennie blabber deleted:

It really chaps your butt that hams have for decades been able to
provide all kinds of ememgency communications when other means fail,
much to the satisfaction to emergency officials who still rely on hams
in emergencies, doesn't it lennie?

Not at all. That hasn't been proven to the general statement you
make.

You desperately WANT your statement to be true but it isn't.
Therefore you act tuff and try to bluff others.

First of all, you don't give any amateur radio license callsign,
therefore all must assume you are BOGUS. A fake. Charlatan.
Poseur. A nobody trying to be a somebody. No body at all.

And you can't be a part of it because
you have no license and can't pass the test to get one.

Irrelevant to "Ham Radio Is A Hobby Not A Service."

I have a commercial license. Had it since 1956. An amateur radio
license - which you DO NOT VERIFY AS YOUR OWN - takes less
knowledge to pass than the old First Class Radiotelephone
(Commercial). You seem to forget that the Question Pool is open
to inspection to the public.

The Office of
Homeland Security thinks enough of hams being able to handle emergency
communications that they are including ham radio in their emergency plans.

Oh, my! OFFICIAL recognition? :-)

Has Part 97, Title 47 C.F.R. been changed since that agency was
created AFTER 11 September? :-)

Is U.S. amateur radio primarily an emergency communications service
under Homeland Security? No? Why not? All you noblemen seem
to think you all deserve medals for having fun in a HOBBY.

Now go back to the rec room of your rest home and see what the other
residents are doing, maybe you can get into a game of strip checkers or
something to take you mind off of your inability to get a ham license.

"JJ," quit trying to tawk tuff. Your fake testosterone is showing.

You keep HIDING your identity. Afraid to show who you really are?

You don't really have any sort of license, do you? Yet you PRETEND
to have one with all the tuff tawk and nastygrams in messages.

Pretense and pseudo patriotism is all you have shown so far.

You are ANONYMOUS. A NOBODY. A ZERO. An Unidentified
Spitting Object (USO) entertaining only yourself in "the service."

Get on the mailing list for "Ham Radio For Dummies" to be
published soon. Study it. Learn from it. You could be somebody
instead of the nobody you are in here.

LHA / WMD