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March 24th 04, 12:28 PM
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Subject: Wrong Again, Len! (Communicator Power)
From: (William) Date: 3/24/2004 5:26 AM Central Standard Time Message-id: "Arnie Macy" wrote in message ... "William" wrote ... And you've trained your volunteers to some standard? Our "volunteers" are government employees who have this duty assigned to them as part of their employment, and they are well trained in EM. All of the angencies that support us have trained their volunteers via either RACES or ARES in EM. Of course, that training varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but there is little we can do to enforce our standards on them. I could be wrong, but I think only school teachers and the ARRL's W1AW Operator are allowed to be paid while using amateur radio. And for once you'd be right. Congratulations. I agree that the specialized function it provides could have assisted us -- and we too a long look at that when we were planning. But in reviewing all COAs, the cost-benefit just wasn't there. Since we are primarily in contact with civilian agencies (both state and federal) during emergencies, it made better sense to utilize the cilvilian HAM radio assets we had in place. We have plenty of standard military comms available other than MARS HF. The Amateur radio piece is for redundancy purposes -- not as a primary means of communication. For example, all of our VHF is military and of course the SAT and wireless is run on military net/satilites for security purposes. Fair enough. It only took you three days. Steve, K4YZ |
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