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

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

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

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.

I'm sorry your situation is so poor over there. Believe me, it
doesn't have to be that way. It's possible to train the amateur
operators properly (so they know how to provide useful communications,
and how _not_ to get in the way and make things worse), and set up
official well-understood arrangements by which amateurs can provide
useful-and-sometimes-critical backup communications. This role as
emergency communicators is, in fact, a big part of the legal
justification for amateur radio as written into U.S. law.

In my own city, the amateur emergency-communication group is
affiliated with the city fire department - most of us are sworn in as
volunteers with the FD, and have had background checks run and photo
IDs issued. The ARES/RACES radio shack is in the Police & Fire
administration building, we've got perhaps a half-dozen antennas up on
their towers, the city provides a substantial budget for the purchase
and upkeep of amateur radios and the necessary equipment and antennas,
we have amateur-radio antennas pre-staged on all of the city fire
stations and at the hospitals, and have a good working relationship
with the city emergency services manager. We run drills every
quarter, have training classes once a month, and encourage amateurs to
become involved with their community CERT groups (for which the city
provides free emergency-response training classes). A lot of other
cities do as much, or more.

In an emergency (e.g. earthquake, a big issue around here!) it's very
likely that the number of trained amateur-radio communicators our
group can activate will exceed the total number of police officers and
firemen. We might even double their number - a lot of the public
safety officers live an hour's drive or more outside the city and may
not be able to get to work for _days_ after an earthquake.

I can't say that I particularly care for the monthly "please send us
your equipment" capital-letters boilerplate posting you're responding
to... but the poster's motives and justifications are not as suspect
as you seem to feel, I think.

--
Dave Platt AE6EO
Hosting the Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior
I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will
boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads!

N2ION,
How many members in your club? Any of them contribute
gear? Time? Can you think of a good way to prove to me
that you are ligitimate, not another scam?
'Doc

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.

In the US the hams are not doing the actual emergency work. We are used to
provide communications for the services. Without power or the ability of
some services to communicate with others or long range communications , the
'professional services' tend to need help in communicating.

As someone else pointed out , in many areas of the country the volunteers
are all we have for fire protection and emergency medical service and
transportation. I live in a rural area and appreciate the ones that provide
this service. It may or may not be as good as a paid service but it is all
I have .

It's a bit different in the US. Amateur emergency work is well coordinated
with the authorities and is appreciated by them.
"Ian" wrote in message
...
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

CW wrote:
It's a bit different in the US. Amateur emergency work is well coordinated
with the authorities and is appreciated by them.

Same for ordinary citizens with concealed handgun permits.
The violent crime rate has nose-dived in the USA while
sky-rocketing in Australia, Canada, and the UK.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



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Yep. Just renewed mine.

"Cecil Moore" wrote in message
...

Same for ordinary citizens with concealed handgun permits.
The violent crime rate has nose-dived in the USA while
sky-rocketing in Australia, Canada, and the UK.
--
73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp



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http://www.limarc.org/members.htm

'Doc wrote:

N2ION,
How many members in your club? Any of them contribute
gear? Time? Can you think of a good way to prove to me
that you are ligitimate, not another scam?
'Doc