Where in Part 97 of the FCC Rules and Regs -- do you see the word "Hobby" ?
(answer nowhere)

and where do you see the word "Service" ?
Quote Title " PART 97 AMATEUR RADIO SERVICE"

Now am I to believe you or the FCC ??

Here in San Diego, a ham hiker overdid it and was grossly dehydrated- his
cell phone was not able to make a connection

But a Ham repeater that covers all of San Diego county worked just fine SD
County is 4,261 square miles.

A helicopter was sent in and after several hours in a hospital the dry ham
recovered
Now would you call that a hobby or a service ??

This has happened time after time in disaster situations and as Walter
Cronkite stated "Amateur Radio is probably the only fail-safe communications
in the world"

It is of no importance as to the ratio of cell phone calls to ham radio 911
calls.
What is important and vital is that we have both - wouldn't you say ?

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Incognito By Necessity (:-(

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
- - -Harry S Truman




"Bill Sohl" wrote in message
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Len Over 21 wrote:

Anonymous one who has no amateur call, you cannot admit your
error. To do so would be against your mythology, the fantasy
that
amateur radio always jumps in to save the day.

Not always, but always when needed and has saved the day many times.
That you can't be a part of it to get your recognition really gets
your
goat doesn't it?

Would you estimate that in the last decade more cellular telephones
have saved the day than all of amateur radio in the last century?

What's your point? The same can be said of many things.
Ham radio is still a service and considered by the FCC to
be of sufficient value as a service to warrant keeping it around.

Cheers,
Bill K2UNK