RadioBanter - View Single Post - The ARS NOT to move to Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau

March 22nd 06, 12:46 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy

, N0IMD, Brian P Burke wrote:
wrote:
On 20 Mar 2006 15:34:35 -0800, wrote:
nobodys old friend wrote:
wrote:
From: The ARRL Letter
Vol. 25, No. 11

nice to have somethng to discuss

OTOH WE are NOT seen as a public saety function.

I wonder how hard the ARRL worked to get us classified with PS&HSB?

did they work toward that gol at all?

you are still a memebr you might ask?

The first I heard of it was their announcement that we aren't being
reclassified. That tells me that they were working on it.

No...it means someone may have THOUGHT about it...At best the
article appears to simply say that it's not on the table for whatever
reasons and that it's not on anyone's agenda to do otherwise.

HMMMM not good for
the safety of ARS freqs id say

Perhaps.

sorry you areit isn't "preahps it is "not Good" it may also be not bad
but surely being classiefied with EMS and therefore above taxi cabs
would have been good for us in the long run both here and in our
neighboor Canada where vhf bandwidth is also at rsik

Had we been reclassed, there might be actual demands that the ARS would
have to live up to other than "goodwill.".

More assinine, unfounded BS from Brain P Burke.

There's not ONE bit of media release about Amatuer Radio as it
pertains to the most recent disaster response in Louisiana that is
anything BUT positive vis-a-vis Amateur Radio.

WHERE do you come up with these assinine assertions, Burke?

Two years ago you started in on this line about how ARES/RACES/MARS
would not be able to respond or sustain a disaster relief
communications, yet there's been one significant disaster after
another, none the least of which being Katrina, and in every case where
those agencies responded there's been nothing but positive press...And
I am NOT talking about ARRL stuff...Real, mainstream media...CNN, Fox,
MSNBC, etc.

The Amateur Radio Serivce, under the banners of MARS, ARES, RACES,
etc, has more than lived up to it's claims of disaster communications
support, yet you continue to make a fool out of yourself claiming
otherwise.

Burke, WHY do you continue this silly behaviour when you've been
proven wrong over and over and over...?!?!

Idiot.

Steve, K4YZ