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January 3rd 06, 02:35 PM
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Hams ruin welcome at Rose Parade "
K4YZ wrote: wrote: No Roses wrote: Amateur Radio no longer at Rose Parade cut A general observation based on the article and on recent experience in my part of the world - Many hams still view their communications support as an essential service and have not appreciated that communications is now a commodity availlable through many alternatives. I have personally seen situations where amateurs adopted an attitude that clearly lost sight of themselves delivering a service to someone else. As a service provider, the served agency (or in this case, the parade officials) are the customer. You do what the customer requires. Too many ham groups get confused on this point and try to run the show themselves. A bit of pontification by an Anonymous "source". your point? if any cut Yes, I understand that the Red Cross has lots of cellphones and lots of their own radios. Yet none of the ones they had in New Orleans did them much good...now did they? why do you say that? guess you didnot read the articles posted here on the subject they did not get as much service as they hoped for but they and other still got service cut (3) This in no way, shape or form mitigates a single bit of anything that has occured or continues to occur as it pertains to the integration of and deployment of Amateur Radio resources for disaster relief. The FACT remains that the American Red Cross, The Department of State, the Department of Homeland Defense, The Defense Department, The Salvation Army, etc etc etc all maintain MOU's, or Memorandum's of Understanding with the ARRL at the National level and various organizations at the local levels to provide EMERGENCY communicaitons. and yet why did Dan make coments along the same lines about ARS activities during Katrina cut |
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