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Old September 30th 06, 10:14 PM posted to alt.radio.scanner,rec.radio.amateur.antenna,rec.radio.amateur.policy,rec.radio.scanner,rec.radio.swap
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Default So, Which reader has actually saved a life or lives using "CW" on Ham Bands?


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on Fri, Sep 29 2006 9:00 pm

6. Lacking any of the above, one might look for a non-TV
or non-CB antenna on a house...high probability of
that belonging to a radio amateur. [such a search
could take many hours, though] If the date and time
corresponded to a ham contest time, the ham might not
respond quickly. Even if the ham responded and began
calling, there is no assurance that anyone would hear
or pay attention to some emergency plea; that would
violate the normal conversation that goes on in ham
bands and cause much on-air disputes, further clogging
calls for help. Speed of help calling is variable,
anything from several minutes to many hours. Not that
it matters since the victim already died after trying
to get through all the ragchewing, self-styled radio
police, and general cat-calling by other amateurs.


or you if you had to you could send ing sos or oso the later seems
likely to get you aid the fastest from the CW they will df you fast to
come and castise you for it and likely then well at least rennder first
aid as they take you to task for daring to misspell sos