Subject: Ham-radio is a hobby not a service
From: (Len Over 21)
Date: 3/19/2004 12:03 AM Central Standard Time
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In article m, "Dee D.
Flint"
writes:
"William" wrote in message
.com...
Put 100 million amateurs on our bands and you think you can get a
message thru?
You are obviously unaware that in an emergency, the government can and does
declare designated frequencies off limits to general usage for the duration
of that emergency.
Right, Mama Dee, that's "exactly" what happened after the second
hijacked airliner crashed into the WTC towers, didn't it?
Was it necessary?
Right...just like the Loma Prieta and Northridge earthquakes when
the government ordered every radio thing be all ham emergency...
Nope...but they did declare a communicaitons emergency and certain
discreet HF frequencies WERE made hands-off to "routine" Amateur use...Just
likes dozens of other times they've done so for other like incidents.
Right...just like all the southwest and northwest firestorms had
every radio commandeered for emergency use.
Nice try at scare tactics...Except the only thing "scary" here is that
people like you are allowed to procreate without control.
Right...just like every hurricane striking the east coast has all radios
off limits by Order.
"Every"...?!?!
Certainly not.
Does the FCC order "communications emergencies" based upon these events?
They certainly do.
Right...except the broadcast people, the news people, the Public
Safety Radio Services people, the utility radio (PLMRS) people,
the activated National Guards people, FEMA, etc., etc., etc. were
all using their radios as they usually would WITHOUT any nasty
gubmint orders.
And used them well.
But NOT for the types of communications that were supported by Amateur
Radio...that's the PURPOSE of Amateur Radio...to relieve those other services
of having to worry about that.
I am saddened that your local telephone infrastructure has such
poor service wherever you live. However, here in the sunny
Greater Los Angeles area the telephone infrastructure was quite
normal after the first two hours of the Northridge quake. That was
ten years ago, of course, and the cell phones weren't as many
but neither were there as many cell sites. It all evened out.
Good for them. The incident was in a localized area, and I'd be very
dissappointed if the local utilities COULDN'T make this "fix" in a hurry.
But even MORE unfortuntate for YOU, Your Scumminess, is that YOU and YOU
ALONE keep trying to use the Northridge Earthquake as some "evidence" that
Amateur Radio is of no value in an emergency. That was ONE event in over 90
years of archived Amateur histroy.
I say unfortunate for you because YOU keep making these assinine
assertions only to have one report after another of Amateur Radio's services
being deployed in the very manner YOU say they aren't...
But, in your scenario of the mind, "all cell sites fall down during
emergencies" and only ham radio can save everyone. In real
life they sure didn't. Don't let that trouble you. We are all
children to you.
In real life, Lennie, NO ONE has made such an assinine assertion...
Only you in "support" of your rants.
Steve, K4YZ