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"William" wrote in message om... Get over the glory of our history. Mike Powell asks, "What has amateur radio done for me lately?" How recent do you need? September 11, 2001 comes to mind. Then there was the great blackout of 2003. No doubt there have been smaller emergencies of which I haven't heard. There of course there are the emergencies to come such as future hurricanes. Although these have been rather quiet the last few years, that doesn't mean they are gone. Then outside the disaster arena, there's all the marathons, walk-a-thons, bike-a-thons and myriad other public events for which hams routinely provide communications. Our club supports 4 or 5 of these per year. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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William wrote:
Hah, funny one. I've seen amateur towers fall over. It can be months or years if they're ever replaced at all. Even if my tower should fall over, I can string up antennas and be back on the air in hours of not minutes. Can you do that with your cell phone? |
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Alun wrote in message . ..
(William) wrote in m: Alun wrote in message . .. (William) wrote in om: Question: Are there more cell towers in America than there are Amateur Radio Licensees? Don't know, but if we fall over in an eartquake we just get back up... Hah, funny one. I've seen amateur towers fall over. It can be months or years if they're ever replaced at all. I wasn't talking about our towers, though, was I? I have one I've never put up. The point is that, for example, we can communicate in and out of a disaster area on HF SSB, for example, without needing a tower. Doesn't happen every day, but that's something to be thankful for. True enough. People might be able to use cellular phones to do the same. |
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(William) wrote in
om: Alun wrote in message . .. (William) wrote in m: Alun wrote in message . .. (William) wrote in om: Question: Are there more cell towers in America than there are Amateur Radio Licensees? Don't know, but if we fall over in an eartquake we just get back up... Hah, funny one. I've seen amateur towers fall over. It can be months or years if they're ever replaced at all. I wasn't talking about our towers, though, was I? I have one I've never put up. The point is that, for example, we can communicate in and out of a disaster area on HF SSB, for example, without needing a tower. Doesn't happen every day, but that's something to be thankful for. True enough. People might be able to use cellular phones to do the same. Exactly. Might or might not. |
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(William) wrote in message om...
(Steve Robeson, K4CAP) wrote in message . com... (William) wrote in message . com... Tell us how it turns out. Best of luck. Ohhhh noooooo, Brain! I wouldn't have it any other way! Nurses before gentlemen. And in my case I have the distinct Honor of being both...Ergo I defer to you, as BOTH a gentleman AND a Nurse would. Steve, K4YZ |
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(William) wrote in message . com...
(Steve Robeson, K4CAP) wrote in message . com... Alun wrote in message . .. In one way he does have a point. What I am alluding to is that prcisely because it is a hobby we all have thousands of bucks worth of radios lying around, and we can use them without wires and cell phone towers. The "point" Lennie it trying to make us believe, Alun, is that Amateur Radio is ONLY a hobby, with no intrinsic value to anyone for any reason OTHER than recreation...That's not true. Really? I don't see that at all. That's because you have YOUR head so far up the Putzy One's anus that you can't SEE anything else. His ulterior motive is to discredit Amateur Radio's countless contributions, not only to the "history" of radio, but to the "service" of the Nation as a resource to be called upon in any number of disasters or emergencies. I'd suggest that you not rest on your laurels. Historically amateur radio has provided an invaluable service to the nation. More recently, more people have turned to cellular telephones to aid them in an emergency. You do the math. There's no math to do, Brain. There's ALWAYS been more telephones than licensed Amateurs, yet there's ALWAYS been a need for persons able to conduct emergency operations via two-way radio. The invention of the cellular telephone has not changed that at all. Cellular telephones are still dependent on wire-line based infrastructure and thousands of very expensivecellsites that are fixed assets. Fixed assets in a tornado are ALSO called "collateral damage". Man-made events are just as devastating as recent events have demonstrated. He's unable to do that, either, but he obviously believes that if he keeps repeating it often enough perhaps he and he alone can re-write 90 years of history. Get over the glory of our history. Mike Powell asks, "What has amateur radio done for me lately?" It's not "history", ya dimwit...It's RECENT current events. The most recent firestorms in the west being testament to that. Try again, Brain.... Steve, K4YZ |
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"William" wrote in message om... Alun wrote in message . .. (William) wrote in m: Alun wrote in message . .. (William) wrote in om: Question: Are there more cell towers in America than there are Amateur Radio Licensees? Don't know, but if we fall over in an eartquake we just get back up... Hah, funny one. I've seen amateur towers fall over. It can be months or years if they're ever replaced at all. I wasn't talking about our towers, though, was I? I have one I've never put up. The point is that, for example, we can communicate in and out of a disaster area on HF SSB, for example, without needing a tower. Doesn't happen every day, but that's something to be thankful for. True enough. People might be able to use cellular phones to do the same. Probably not though. The cell phone system is only set up to handle normal levels of usage. It gets bogged down when traffic levels rise dramatically as they do in emergencies. If any cell sites are lost in the emergency that either cuts off that area from cell service entirely or further overloads the system. In the case of 9/11, calls placed via landlines and/or cell phones took 30 minutes or more to get through and some did not get through at all. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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