I would like to point out as a former Assistant RACES Officer for a local
community in Massachusetts, that Mr. Romney is absolutely correct.

The current EMA-ARRL structure co-exists with the STATE RACES Officer and
going nothing.

ARES has nets that do NOTHING. RACES does nothing. 85% of the
communities south of Boston do not have any active participation in the
RACES drills.

One of the studio engineers was a ham and threw out the question to
Jacobsen as something to hit Mr. Romney.

Frankly, MEMA is much better organized than everyone would think. A
total communications melt-down is impossible in Massachusetts due to
MEMA, SP and SG preparations. The Air Wing is ready to roll out portable
towers for cell phones. The SP has several rolling CC and backup towers
for the 800 Mhz system. Each town has the 800 Mhz radios provided by the
state.

Just so you know that some of those guys actually doing things are HAMs.
They learned by being hams. Yet, we don't need hams as a massive fodder
to materialize for the day of rescue. I would like to think Mr. Romney
is right about this as we are paying our TAX DOLLARS for service!

"laborkei" wrote in
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Attention all Amateur Operators.
Please Read, and send your comments to the ARRL and Romney Website.


Wednesday 16 November 2005 @ 15:48:10 | Eastern Massachusetts ARRL
Romney 'Disses' Amateur Radio In
Televised Town Meeting Posted on Wednesday16 November 2005 @ 15:48:10






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On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:41:38 -0600, "William O'Hara"
wrote:

I would like to point out as a former Assistant RACES Officer for a local
community in Massachusetts, that Mr. Romney is absolutely correct.

The current EMA-ARRL structure co-exists with the STATE RACES Officer and
going nothing.

ARES has nets that do NOTHING. RACES does nothing. 85% of the
communities south of Boston do not have any active participation in the
RACES drills.

This seems to be true, there is an ARES net near me that does not do
any training but encourages parcipitants to do conversation after
everyone has checked in. In the course Emergency Communication I we
are discouraged from doing conversation during emergency communication
and encouraged to be brief and accurate with our communication.


John Ragland - KE6CQK

And 'We The People' dismissed Guvna Romney. Now we're even.

Ed, NM2K

"Ed Cregger" wrote in news:gDluj.74327$vt2.44983
@bignews8.bellsouth.net:

And 'We The People' dismissed Guvna Romney. Now we're even.

Ed, NM2K




Unforunately, you have no idea of the situation on the ground here. It is
petty to vote for someone other than Mr. Romney soley since he said that we
do not need the hams. He is quite correct. He never made a disparaging
remark about any hams. The Chronicle interviewer was unable to make any
concrete point to challenge Mr. Romney's assertation.

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ICRR

On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Ask Me wrote:

On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:41:38 -0600, "William O'Hara"
wrote:

I would like to point out as a former Assistant RACES Officer for a local
community in Massachusetts, that Mr. Romney is absolutely correct.

The current EMA-ARRL structure co-exists with the STATE RACES Officer and
going nothing.

ARES has nets that do NOTHING. RACES does nothing. 85% of the
communities south of Boston do not have any active participation in the
RACES drills.

This seems to be true, there is an ARES net near me that does not do
any training but encourages parcipitants to do conversation after
everyone has checked in. In the course Emergency Communication I we
are discouraged from doing conversation during emergency communication
and encouraged to be brief and accurate with our communication.


John Ragland - KE6CQK

Your all correct. MARS is doing nothing either except checkin nets
every other Saturday where no training is done. After 70 years
of AARS/MARS continuous service I droped out of it last year.
Only few people left on local nets, and mostly no training, just
idle conversation takes place.
Joe/KH6jF (formerly ABM6JF with MARS)