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, "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 > > > > 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 >
