[digitalradio] Re: Curmudgions and an idea for digital operation

2008-01-11 Thread jgorman01
I've been remiss in answering some of your questions. You'll either have the start of a pactor type emission or an illegal emission type. I had this argument several years ago when pactor 3 showed up. If you look at J7D, it is defined as Single-sideband, suppressed carrier; with two or more

[digitalradio] Re: Curmudgions and an idea for digital operation

2008-01-10 Thread jgorman01
Hate to tell you but some of us cranky, bitter, and rude (old) men have simply been there and done that. You just don't want to hear that. For example, do you think a permanently installed ham antenna is going to survive on a roof top when all other commercial grade antennas have been destroyed?

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Curmudgions and an idea for digital operation

2008-01-10 Thread Alan Barrow
jgorman01 wrote: Hate to tell you but some of us cranky, bitter, and rude (old) men have simply been there and done that. I certainly saw and worked with some generous kind old man hams in my efforts. (Shared a shelter operation with an 80 year old!!) But did not see hardly any of the same

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Curmudgions and an idea for digital operation

2008-01-10 Thread Rick
Guys, You both have valid views. Isn't it more that one is mostly discussing smaller types of disasters, the ones that are the most common, and the other is discussing much larger scale incidents that rarely happen (but they do happen and we may wish to consider preparing for them as best we

[digitalradio] Re: Curmudgions and an idea for digital operation

2008-01-10 Thread jgorman01
Rick, Good posting. I don't know how many times to say it, I'm not against volunteering and using ham radio for emergency communications. However, for me ham radio does come after several other things. I don't think some of the emcomm folks understand this. For the folks that went to the

RE: [digitalradio] Re: Curmudgions and an idea for digital operation

2008-01-10 Thread Rud Merriam
://TheHamNetwork.net -Original Message- From: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jgorman01 Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 3:32 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Curmudgions and an idea for digital operation Rick, My family comes first, my

Re: [digitalradio] Re: Curmudgions and an idea for digital operation

2008-01-10 Thread Rick
Hi Jim, One of the prime directives of the ARECC Courses is that you and your family and their safety come first before others. That group was violating basic common sense and emergency recommendations that have been developed over a long time. You don't want someone distracted with personal