On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 23:37:49 -0000, "Ian" wrote:

Hello,

Oh yes, pull the other one. If anyone wants to send me a new shack I'll
promise to send a post card. Emergency work should be left to professionals
paid to do the job. They can quite often do without people getting under
their feet and in the way! There is an amateur/CB group in the UK that
causes a bit of annoyance like that, people must just like dressing up as
pretend police men. The public take absolutely no notice, and
amateurs/CBers don't either.

"N2ION" wrote in message
...
Long Island Mobile Amateur Radio Club (LIMARC), is looking for DONATIONS
of
"Ham" gear, like triband beams, rigs, and towers, to be used for our
Emergency
Communication Stations, and Field Day.

If you have any old equipment that you're not using anymore, and would
like to
donate it to our cause, we will make sure that you get a nice letter,
being
that we have 503 c(3) status with the I.R.S. ,for a tax deduction, from
our
club.
We really need your help, so please try to assist us in any way that you
can.

Thanks in advance


The world is a very big place, Ian and not all of it is the UK. Some
of us out here in the real world belong to volunteer groups that have
memoranda of understanding with our served organizations and we
practice and drill with them regularly. This is especially true here
in North America where there are areas that are often hit with
extremely severe weather. Some of us are even those "paid
professionals". In fact, most of the fire protection in the US is
provided by volunteers. Unpaid professionals, as it were. Paid
professional fire departments are usually only found in large cities
and densely populated suburban areas.

My first-year composition professor's advice rings especially true
here - "write what you know".

Russ