In article m, "Dee D. Flint"
writes:

"William" wrote in message
You and Dee simply cannot accept that an unlicensed service has played
a major role in emergency comms.

I have never refused to accept the role of unlicensed services but I do not
let that blind me to the fact that amateur radio continues to play a
significant role.

Define "significant role."

That's an emotionally-loaded indefinite adjective designed to state an
opinion rather than any quanitifed value. It is very useful to membership
organizations in trying to get new members by appeals to their personal
need for recognition.

You are the one who cannot accept the fact that amateur
radio continues to play a major rule in emergency comms.

Such as...?

Define "major role" by general terms of reference, NOT from the
League's point of view.

Go to any newspaper or broadcasting archive and research the above
assertation before stating it again (incorrectly).

Amateur radio COULD play a major role and it MIGHT do so at
some future time. It just hasn't done so in the mass media.

My position is and
has always been that we need as many different forms of communication as
possible.

That is very true.

That has also been used as a rationale to continue morse code testing
for U.S. radio amateurs. According to the tRoll yodelings in here, morse
code has been the base rock, the cornerstone of his imaginary world
of "emergencies."

No one can predict what services will or will not be knocked out
in the next emergency.

That INCLUDES amateur radio.

Try to remember that last sentence in FULL reality.

LHA / WMD