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Tim:
Thank you for yet again for voicing your usual
extremist anti Winlink, anti Bandwidth Regulation, anti ARRL and anti virtually
everything else opinions.
Unfortunately we do not live in the idealized dream
world that you wish it to be...
With EMCOMM, we have to deal with the real world
situations as they arise.
FACT: After the last earthquake, It took
several hours for the automatic self aligning systems to be plugging into power,
reboot, realign, reconnect or whatever they needed to do get back on the
air .. While it was better than the several days of previous incarnations, it
was still not good enough and Amateur Radio had a role to play (including some
Digital Communications) until things got back on line. In fact, the
California Office of Emergency Services maintains, I believe, 10 HF Amateur
Stations that are used when your idealistic automatic self aligning
systems fail when you most need them....
FACT: In the 2003 Fires, smoke was so intense
that virtually all UHF and Satellite Systems were either blocked or refracted by
the smoke to the point where they were not reliable. Amateur Radio had a
major role to play until the smoke dissipated several days later and government
communications were usable again. It got pretty intense when Ham Radio
operators had to go out and rescue Fire Fighters whose 800 MHz Radios were
blocked by smoke..
Winlink, along with Packet, SSB, CW, PSK, FM and
RTTY are just some of the tools that were available to us Hams to provide
communications when all else failed.
Which in these cases they did and we were
needed.
Discard any one of our tools or the ARRL, just
because you hate it, makes no sense...
Basically Most of the Rest of the World has already
got it right and they are waiting for the US to stop yakking about it and just
catch up to them....
I have to agree with our friend "Sick of Flapping
Lips"
that frankly I am also getting very tired of your
anti everything rhetoric.
I apologize to them that I feel obligated to
correct your continual distortions of facts and reality....
and your attempts to rewrite history to fit your
anti-everything views of life.
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Howard S. White Ph.D. P. Eng., VE3GFW/K6 ex-AE6SM KY6LA Website: www.ky6la.com "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished" "Ham Antennas Save Lives - Katrina, 2003 San Diego Fires, 911" Need a Digital mode QSO? Connect to Telnet://cluster.dynalias.org Other areas of interest: The MixW Reflector : http://groups.yahoo.com/group/themixwgroup/ DigiPol: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Digipol (band plan policy discussion)
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