K4YZ wrote:
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No Roses wrote:
Amateur Radio no longer at Rose Parade
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A general observation based on the article and on recent experience in my
part of the world - Many hams still view their communications support as an
essential service and have not appreciated that communications is now a
commodity availlable through many alternatives. I have personally seen
situations where amateurs adopted an attitude that clearly lost sight of
themselves delivering a service to someone else. As a service provider, the
served agency (or in this case, the parade officials) are the customer. You
do what the customer requires. Too many ham groups get confused on this
point and try to run the show themselves.
A bit of pontification by an Anonymous "source".
your point? if any
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Yes, I understand that the Red Cross has lots of cellphones and
lots of their own radios.
Yet none of the ones they had in New Orleans did them much
good...now did they?
why do you say that? guess you didnot read the articles posted here on
the subject
they did not get as much service as they hoped for but they and other
still got service
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(3) This in no way, shape or form mitigates a single bit of
anything that has occured or continues to occur as it pertains to the
integration of and deployment of Amateur Radio resources for disaster
relief. The FACT remains that the American Red Cross, The Department
of State, the Department of Homeland Defense, The Defense Department,
The Salvation Army, etc etc etc all maintain MOU's, or Memorandum's of
Understanding with the ARRL at the National level and various
organizations at the local levels to provide EMERGENCY communicaitons.
and yet why did Dan make coments along the same lines about ARS
activities during Katrina
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