On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 11:50:14 -0500, "No Roses" ssb@anon wrote:


Amateur Radio no longer at Rose Parade

Amateur Radio operators no longer part of Tournament of Roses Parade. The
world famous parade is held every New Year's Day in Pasadena, CA. For more
than 30 years, an amateur radio group provided support communications for
the event. But beginning this year, the amateur radio operators will no
longer be part of the event. Parade organizers have an ample supply of
alternative communications and are comfortable no longer using the amateur
radio group. They would have liked to use the hams, but it appears the hams
began to tell parade officials how to handle parts of the communications.
(Tnx to Steve Stroh, N8GNJ for the link.)

cut for breifity

I have heard such stories before but not on this scale

In Illioois IEMA and ARES were not (and may still not be speaking)

it is easy to looks at some ham personalities and igmaine the
conversations

Dan was commenting that Red Cross seemed to be avoiding the use of Ham
Radio during Katrina

this sort of thing is likely to become an increasing problem for the
ARS in the future
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