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"William" wrote in message You and Dee simply cannot accept that an unlicensed service has played a major role in emergency comms. I have never refused to accept the role of unlicensed services but I do not let that blind me to the fact that amateur radio continues to play a significant role. You are the one who cannot accept the fact that amateur radio continues to play a major rule in emergency comms. My position is and has always been that we need as many different forms of communication as possible. No one can predict what services will or will not be knocked out in the next emergency. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message gy.com...
"William" wrote in message You and Dee simply cannot accept that an unlicensed service has played a major role in emergency comms. I have never refused to accept the role of unlicensed services but I do not let that blind me to the fact that amateur radio continues to play a significant role. You are the one who cannot accept the fact that amateur radio continues to play a major rule in emergency comms. My position is and has always been that we need as many different forms of communication as possible. No one can predict what services will or will not be knocked out in the next emergency. Actually, Dee, his "unlicensed services" frame is awfully narrow. Only Class D CB, MURS and FRS are "unlicensed". Cellphones are NOT a "radio service" as defined by any FCC part...they are a FEE-FOR-SERVICE provided by common carriers who are, indeed, licensed services providing that fee-for-service. Every one of those carriers has a plethora of callsigns issued for thier services. You,a cellphone "subscriber" are using your telephone under the auspices of thier license. There are some REACT groups remaining who continue to monitor Class D CB to some degree, but most REACT groups participating in organized "public service" events use GMRS which still requires an FCC-issued station license. FRS is used mostly as a "wireless intercom" within disaster shelters or extremely close areas, NOT as a "major role" in providing disaster relief communications. And I am sure that MURS radios may be used in some areas just as FRS is, but for no more than FRS is. Brain's assertion that "unlicensed" services play a "major role" in "emergency comms" is absolutely assinine. He'll wallow around in this one for a long time to come trying to justify his claims and will come out of it looking just as foolish as he has for his other "claims". I am sure his "definition" of "major role" is far from what REAL IC's consider a "major role". The "unlicensed services" play no more than a "bit part"...a "cameo" at best. So Brain...what "major role" do "unlicensed services" play...?!?! 73 Steve, K4YZ |
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"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message gy.com...
"William" wrote in message You and Dee simply cannot accept that an unlicensed service has played a major role in emergency comms. I have never refused to accept the role of unlicensed services but I do not let that blind me to the fact that amateur radio continues to play a significant role. You are the one who cannot accept the fact that amateur radio continues to play a major rule in emergency comms. My position is and has always been that we need as many different forms of communication as possible. No one can predict what services will or will not be knocked out in the next emergency. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE I too think that multiple forms of communications are the best bet when the chips are down. But cell phones sure are playing a much larger role than amateur radio in emergency communications. |
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(Len Over 21) wrote in message ...
In article , (William) writes: "Dee D. Flint" wrote in message igy.com... "William" wrote in message You and Dee simply cannot accept that an unlicensed service has played a major role in emergency comms. I have never refused to accept the role of unlicensed services but I do not let that blind me to the fact that amateur radio continues to play a significant role. You are the one who cannot accept the fact that amateur radio continues to play a major rule in emergency comms. My position is and has always been that we need as many different forms of communication as possible. No one can predict what services will or will not be knocked out in the next emergency. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE I too think that multiple forms of communications are the best bet when the chips are down. But cell phones sure are playing a much larger role than amateur radio in emergency communications. Brian, reminding folks that 100 MILLION cell phone subscriptions have been taken out in the USA is not a valid fact to Believers. 100,000,000 cellular telephones cannot possibly compare with the 600,000 introverted (minus nursie) licensed amateurs. All are active, have charged batteries, and backup generators, towers that cannot fall, and electronics that cannot fail. Propofagion always occurs when needed. Believers - those whose only access amateur radio sites and especially that of the League - cannot rid themselves of the urban myth that "cell phones always fail in an emergency." Believers don't believe that any other "radios" except cell phones and amateur radio exist. They don't believe that Public Safety (police, fire, ambulance, etc.) services ever use their radios in emergencies...the "emergency" in their minds seems to be of such a large scale, so devastating that Public Safety agencies are also "down." They don't believe that there are hundreds of thousands of other radios in utility companies, taxicabs, private corporations, private boats, private and commercial aviation can even be used in any emergencies. Believers don't believe that any government agency such as FEMA can use "radio" or acknowledge that such is ever used in any emergency. Believers don't even bother to consider the U.S. military or the various states' National Guards, all of whom have portable or mobile radios, radios designed for survivability and operability in the very harsh environment of warfare. All true. You never worked radio while in the service. Heil never worked radio while in the department of state. I never set up hf intercept, nor did branywine ever tell me to reduce power. It is an evil genius that just made us think we did. Believers only believe in three kinds of radios - amateur, cell phones, and some vague amorphous 'other kind' not specified because they don't know anything about all those 'other kinds.' Believers only believe that "cell phones always go down in emergencies" but amateur radio is always so robust and damage proof that all of them survive and continue to work. Robust - beyond belief. Actually incredible. Believers believe what they are told by the League who seems to always say that "amateur radio was 'significant' in some emergency (or event of occasion)."* The League doesn't define 'significant' since that would take away the emotional loading that makes all League members and other amateurs very proud, warm, and fuzzy...which is what they want to do to increase interest in joining the League to keep getting proud, warm, fuzzy feelings through membership. * the homonymic phrase "played a major role" is sometimes used for similar effect. Also, NASA astronauts who accept getting a ham license as one of the many tasks of having to do required NASA public relations are always labeled as "ham-astronauts" to get folks proud, warm, and fuzzy thinking that they got to be astronauts through their amateur radio license first. All throughout Title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, the word "service" is used as a regulatory term meaning a type and kind of radio activity being regulated. Believers insist that "service" means the same as "a service to the country." They don't acknowledge that amateur radio is basically an avocational pursuit, a hobby, done without pecuniary compensation to enjoy a particular radio activity. No, Believers insist that "they perform a service to the nation" through having a ham hobby, much in the same way the we both served our country in the military. Believers cannot be convinced of reality. Believers are a cult stuck in an imaginary world reinforced by the many words of membership organizations into mythical proportions. Anything said to disturb their pride and warm, fuzzy feelings about their hobby are considered heretical and damnations of their national service. LHA / WMD Yup. |
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In article m, "Dee D. Flint"
writes: "William" wrote in message You and Dee simply cannot accept that an unlicensed service has played a major role in emergency comms. I have never refused to accept the role of unlicensed services but I do not let that blind me to the fact that amateur radio continues to play a significant role. Define "significant role." That's an emotionally-loaded indefinite adjective designed to state an opinion rather than any quanitifed value. It is very useful to membership organizations in trying to get new members by appeals to their personal need for recognition. You are the one who cannot accept the fact that amateur radio continues to play a major rule in emergency comms. Such as...? Define "major role" by general terms of reference, NOT from the League's point of view. Go to any newspaper or broadcasting archive and research the above assertation before stating it again (incorrectly). Amateur radio COULD play a major role and it MIGHT do so at some future time. It just hasn't done so in the mass media. My position is and has always been that we need as many different forms of communication as possible. That is very true. That has also been used as a rationale to continue morse code testing for U.S. radio amateurs. According to the tRoll yodelings in here, morse code has been the base rock, the cornerstone of his imaginary world of "emergencies." No one can predict what services will or will not be knocked out in the next emergency. That INCLUDES amateur radio. Try to remember that last sentence in FULL reality. LHA / WMD |
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(William) wrote in message . com...
(Steve Robeson, K4CAP) wrote in message . com... (William) wrote in message . com... Thomas Jefferson, as enlightened and as forward looking as he may have been, could have hardly envisioned the United States as it exists today. True. He would vomit blood at the welfare state that we have become. WHOA, BillyB! You at once espouse making Amateur Radio a "once-size-fits-all" radio service, then make reference to a "welfare state"...?!?! Nice turn-about there! Get whiplash making that turn...?!?! You keep trying to avoid the very real truth that Amateur Radio STILL fills a need, even in these early days of the 21st century. I accept that. However, what I find amusing is that you and Dee cannot accept that other forms of communications are fast eclipsing amateur radio as a means of portable emergency communications. I have NEVER, in this forum or any other, refused to acknowledged that other radio, wireline, or other common carrier services provide any other means of "portable emergency communications". I challenge you to prove otherwise. What I HAVE stated in this and other forums is that Amateur Radio CONTINUES to provide a necessary and almost irreplaceable asset. NO OTHER RADIO SERVICE provides the flexibility and utility that Amateur Radio does. I challenge you to prove THAT otherwise, also. These facts are not from some ARRL source...these assertions come from a plethora of govenmental, public and private agencies who have benefitted from the contributions of Amateur Radio and have expressed the intent to continue to include Amateur Radio in thier plans and programs. And cell phones. How well does a cellphone operate without a functioning cellsite, Brain? Please DISPROVE ANYTHING I have said about Amateur Radio's role. I have NEVER said anything even CLOSE to the idea that we're the only game in town. Quite the contrary. I HAVE said we provide a service to those who make the plans and need the help. Phones and comms did go out in some areas here. Ham radio turned out to be a valuable asset. Power went out north of here. Other than power, there were no reports of comms going out. Do you have a newspaper clipping detailing the comm outages? How about SITREP's from OES/EMA's detailing Amateur Radio involvement? You'll have to ask Dee. I am asking you. Just becasue the papers don't name each and every resource employed in an emergency doesn't mean they weren't involved. That's a LennieRant tactic that any 3rd grader can see through. And you're entirely up to the task. Congrats? Did you say that cell phones played no role in providing communications during the east coast power outage? Absolutely not. You'll please quote the post wherein I made such an assertion, Brain...?!?! Did you say that cell sites don't have emergency backup generators? Absolutely not. You'll please quote the post wherein I made such an assertion, Brain...?!?! C'mon, third grader, explain cell phones from of the picture. Tell us that cell phones played NO role? WHERE do you GET such assinine insinuations, Brain...?!?! I have NEVER made ANY SUCH ASSERTION! Amateur Radio's contributions in emergencies does NOT exist solely "when the comms are down". C'mon, third grader, show us where I stated that. From above: Power went out north of here. Other than power, there were no reports of comms going out. Do you have a newspaper clipping detailing the comm outages? The INSINUATION you make here is VERY clear...in YOUR estimation, the "comms" had to be "down" in order for Amateur Radio to have played a role in "emergency comms". "Emergency comms" are NOT only when the wires are down or the cell site destroyed, Brain. Perhaps if you were actively involved in the programs of some disaster mitigation agency you might have a better insight as to what Amateur Radio's OTHER roles are...?!?! You and Dee simply cannot accept that an unlicensed service has played a major role in emergency comms. What "unlicensed service"...?!?! CB? FRS? MURS? Part 15 compliant devices? Cellphones are a "fee-for-service" provided by the common carriers under the auspices of THIER licenses. Were you two colleagues in third grade??? Perhaps.. I knew a "Dee" in gradeschool, however I doubt we were classmates. On the otherhand we both seem to acknowledge that Amateur Radio plays a PART in emergency communications, and that PART is acknowledged and incorporated by almost every major disaster mitigation organization in the United States, including FEMA, The Red Cross, The Salvation Army, the Department of Defense, the Department of State, most state's OES's, etc etc etc. Unless, of course, you have evidence to the contrary...?!?! Steve, K4YZ |
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"Steve Robeson, K4CAP" wrote in message m... (William) wrote in message . com... (Steve Robeson, K4CAP) wrote in message . com... (William) wrote in message . com... Were you two colleagues in third grade??? Perhaps.. I knew a "Dee" in gradeschool, however I doubt we were classmates. Not unless you went to 3rd grade in Andrew, Iowa or Elwood, Iowa. Dee D. Flint, N8UZE |
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