Hi Danny, Under serious emergencies involving the safety of life or property you can theoretically do certain things that you can not legally do under normal circumstances. (If you have had the ARRL Emcomm class you know that there can be some limitations so good judgement needs to be used.
One could argue that it is unnecessary to get an amateur radio license because you will just use the equipment if such an occasion occurs. If you are going to have a successful effort to provide emcomm support, it has to be practiced frequently. You don't want to have your first practice on the day of the emergency. The participation in nets may be variable depending upon where you live. I would not say that our nets are larger or have more traffic today than they did 20 or more years ago. It seems that as we lose the older CW operators we may not be seeing new hams replace them. Do others find that their NTS nets are doing much better than 10 to 20 years ago? Although there is continuing interest in ham digital communications that may not necessarily mean increased numbers of ARES/RACES operators using these modes. However, what was considered good communications support only a few years ago, no longer holds true. Served agencies expect e-mail communications and they want it with attachments. This is not something that conventional NTS nets or even most digital networks can handle. That is why ARRL has such a sweeping ARESCOM proposal. 73, Rick, KV9U -----Original Message----- From: Danny Douglas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 10:09 PM To: digitalradio@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Winlink take over? "Right now it is OK to transmit digital voice on voice channels and yet you can not transmit digital data AND voice on voice channels. Even emergency data" We may transmit any mode on any frequency under emergency conditions. We may NOT transmit on those unassigned modes/freqs if it is NOT an emergency. As to the use of SSTV and voice on the same frequency, they are both SSB transmissions, and SSTV is not data. "You have done a lot toward at least one of those by your "advancement of the radio art" with sofware that you have written. Some of us have fulfilled other parts of the charter. But we are now eclipsed by new technology and part of our emergency capability is of much less value than it used to be" I contend that our emergency capability is much greater than it ever has been in the past. Look at the numbers of people taking the ARRL emergency classes today. Look at the numbers of people who can send and receive RTTY, PSK or other digital modes. Look at the number of people on this list. 10 years ago, those numbers did not approach anything near where they are today. 10-15 years ago, there were few people checking into CW or SSB/FM nets to pass traffic. The last time that amateur radio was really called on to provide huge numbers of people, was WWII when many went in to the military and immediately were assigned teaching positons , to train recruits in communications procedures, especially CW. Yes, we still ( or is it - Now we can) provide emergency communications to police, fire, rescue, etc. and that number is increasing daily. That particular "requirment" of ham radio is very well being fullfilled today. Danny -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.9.1 - Release Date: 4/1/2005 The K3UK DIGITAL MODES SPOTTING CLUSTER AT telnet://208.15.25.196/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/digitalradio/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
