Len Over 21 wrote:

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.

Not always, but always when needed and has saved the day many times.
That you can't be a part of it to get your recognition really gets your
goat doesn't it?



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.

You so desperately WANT to convince others that ham radio serves no
purpose other than a hobby, therefor you act tough 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.

Don't worry lennyboy, I do have an Advanced class, lack of display of my
callsign is of no revelance to "Ham Radio Is A Hobby Not A Service".
You don't hold a ham license therefore you are irrelevant to any
discusson on ham radio. How do I know you are really who you say you
are? I think you are a fake, just someone with a bogus id, not who you
say you are 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.

A commercial license that isn't worth the paper it is printed on now. I
held a Second Class, got it in 1961, since expired, so what does that
prove? I also hold an amateur radio operators license...you don't.


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?

If other means are not available it will be.

No? Why not? All you noblemen seem
to think you all deserve medals for having fun in a HOBBY.

Yea, ham radio operators have received lots recognition for their
service in emergency communication, from local officials all the way to
the Whitehouse. I don't ever remember seeing anyone standing in line for
a medal. Grinds your hemroids dosen't it? You can't be a part of it
because you can't or too lazy to pass the test, so you devote your time
to attempting to tear down amateur radio. Stop wasting you time, it
doesn't fly. You really have a hard on for those of us who took the
time, have the ability to learn, and obtain a license don't you?



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

And as a non-ham on this group, you are a NOBODY, NADA, NOTHING, ZERO,
ZIP, ZILCH.

Get on the mailing list for "Ham Radio For Dummies" to be
published soon.

I spoke to the author of that book and told me he wrote it just for you,
but I told him he wasted his time, he wouldn't be able to make it simple
enough for you to understand. Now help up that little old lady you
pushed over to rush back to the computer to post your drivel and go back
to your room for you meds, the nurse is waiting for you, old man.