nobodys_old_friend wrote:
K4YZ wrote:
QUOTE FROM THE ARRL WEBSITE

Amateur Radio's Role Gets Favorable Mention in Post-Katrina Report

NEWINGTON, CT, Feb 17, 2006--The Amateur Radio Emergency Service
(ARES), the Military Affiliate Radio System (MARS) and the HF digital
e-mail system Winlink 2000 all got positive mentions in a post-Katrina
report from the US House of Representatives. US Rep Tom Davis (R-VA)
chaired the panel. References to ARES, MARS and Winlink appear in "A
Failure of Initiative"--the final report of the Select Bipartisan
Committee to investigate the preparation for and response to Hurricane
Katrina.

"Like all levels of government," the 364-page report notes, the
National Communication System (NCS), "was not able to address all
aspects of the damage to the communications infrastructure of the Gulf
States."

of course they did

but at least you tried posting on radio for a change

Slap yourself in the face for being two-faced again, Mork. I've
been trying to "read" the past two weeks going's-on here, and I'll be
darned if I see anything that's "radio" from you.

I wonder if you will premit any discusion of the subject

Since you made it adversarial in only two sentences, I think the
question belongs in YOUR lap, Mork, not mine.

nothing viods the basic premise that TI and other have said for years

What? TI? What's a viod?

the over all Katrina reponse was in negitive numbers

Not as far as Amateur Radio, MARS or SHARES goes it isn't, Mork.
That's what the peice I quoted was addressing...Nothing else.

the ARS response was beter by comparision a 2 or 3. and given the
colapse in many of real governemtn and society likely could never have
been beter than roughly a 5

But all the deetails show we could have done better...(SNIP)

There's always "better". Even God tried to wipe the slate clean
and try again. Why should mortals be any different?

(UNSNIP)...but no discusiion of this is premitted

Who said so?

Nature placed the ARS where we basicaly had to look good relitively, we
were playing laong the keystone cops, hell Fox News did a better job of
helping Katrina victums than the offical response

Somewhere in there was a "thought", but I wonder what it
was....Work on that English composition, Mork!

So far, there's not been one word of criticism for the response by
ARES, MARS, SHARES, etc other than "why can't we got more guys like
you".... Even CAP's deployment of ALE-enabled HF systems got gold
stars.

So other than refering to FEMA or the State of Louisiana agencies,
just WHO were YOU talking about? The day was certainly carried by
volunteers, that's for sure.

Steve, K4YZ