"Tim Perry" wrote in message
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"Ron Hardin" wrote in message
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Mike Terry wrote:
A longer version of this news story is available on the ARRL website
at
http://www.arrl.org/

There's a longer version?! It already set a record for a press release.
I gather somebody wants to take the frequencies away. Jeez, talk about
pointless self-importance. You could get even better emergency
communications
by putting up more cell phone towers and not have to suffer through the
press release.

Look for a ``Car-jackers Handle Emergency Transportation'' release from
civil rights organizatons.
--
Ron Hardin


On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk.


gee Ron, why go to such an effort to belittle a group of volunteers who
donate their time, equipment, and expertise and only to have the
satisfaction that they helped some people?


Their work is thankless, and a little overblown press once and awhile is
about as bad as that gets. What's really aggravating, is to hear the vermin
crawl out of their holes and whistle and otherwise deliberately disrupt
emergency communications on the HWN and Maritime Mobile Net. Some Amateur
operators in spanish and asian languages (one group allegedly operates
within Florida) deliberately acts up on 14323 whenever the net is active on
14325.

Jack