Subject: Cell phone woes
From: "KØHB"
Date: 4/23/2004 8:05 PM Central Standard Time
Message-id: . net
"Jim Hampton" wrote in message
...
| Hans was involved in emergencies. He can tell you the story about
getting
| comms back up to Guam from Saipan (did I get the right island that
time,
| Hans? 
Yup, that's the right island grin.
The Crockstar is trying to somehow make MARS into an amateur radio
program, and therefore make his case that military planners include
amateur radio in their plans.
No one's "...trying to somehow make MARS into an amateur radio program".
I guess all that stuff in the various branches of MARS about disaster
planning was just to use up the surplus ink. And those BST's...?!?! Just
another opportunity to have lunch in the O-Club, Hans?
Of course MARS isn't amateur radio, it is the Military Affiliate
Radio Service, which uses MARS frequencies, issues MARS licenses, and
trains it's operators in MARS procedures.
Duhhhh....Ya think...?!?! I believe I said (in not so many words) the
very same thing.
The only resemblance it has
to amateur radio is the fact that most (not all) volunteers are
recruited from amateur ranks. Not all amateurs are eligible to be
licensed as MARS operators.
Just the majority of them.
No Amateur Radio = No MARS program.
It really is just that simple.
Steve, K4YZ