Thanks Robert, I support you 100% 73 de LA5VNA Steinar
n4ijs skrev: > > Hello! > > I am new to this forum, so please forgive me if this comes across off > base. But, I came here looking for information on digital modes for > Amateur Radio - not various, multi-post messages about various peoples > opinion (and arguments) on unrelated topics. > > I am sure that these discussions are important to a select group of > folks, but are there no other places for these types of discussions to > take place? > > I belong to several Ham related Yahoo! forums and this one certainly > produces (by far) the most emails; however, few are related to the > topic at hand. So, I have to weed through these other messages to get > to the "real" ones. > > If this just the way of this forum, that's fine - I will just > unsubscribe. I hope that isn't the case, but, if it is, can anyone > recommend a forum for exploring digital modes within Ham Radio? > > Thanks and 73, > Robert - N4IJS > > --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com > <mailto:digitalradio%40yahoogroups.com>, "Rud Merriam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > In Katrina and Rita shelters were opened where there were people in > need. > > Whether supplies could readily reach them was a problem to be > solved, not a > > requirement for shelter location. You are not understanding the > widespread > > nature of these disasters. It was easier to solve the supply problem > than > > the rescue problem. > > > > A supply truck or helicopter with supplies can make it in once a > day. The > > multiple vehicles, trucks or helicopters, to evacuate people were not > > available. > > > > Your "hypothetical" versus others "real world" experience is > misleading you. > > > > > > Rud Merriam K5RUD > > ARES AEC Montgomery County, TX > > http://TheHamNetwork.net <http://TheHamNetwork.net> > > > > > > > > Your first paragraph indicates that the shelter was so remote and > isolated > > that it required helicopter delivery of food and water. Yet you also > > indicate that you were in your truck which indicates you could drive > to the > > shelter. Maybe you were driving a monster truck? Some of this > appears to be > > an appeal to emotion. > > > > I HAVE been around long enough to know neither the ARC or SA would > open a > > shelter in a location that was not reachable by regular supply > vehicles nor > > that had SOME kind of communications. I am pretty sure that the > government > > authorities would not authorize this either. To do otherwise is simply > > asking for the shelter staff to require 'rescuing' at some time in the > > future thereby adding to the problem. > > Consequently, when you say no communications, you are overstating > the facts. > > Now maybe, a runner in a vehicle may the only means of > communication, but > > never the less, it is communications. > > > > > > > > Jim > > WA0LYK > > > >
