Thank you Andy. Now you better duck. You have maligned the sacred cow of ham radio.
Scott/K6IX Andrew O'Brien wrote: > FYI, my hospital OWNS the ham equipment deployed at the facility. > ARES/RACES provides operators but we retain ownership of anything we > paid for out of Govt grants. I insisted on it , as a hospital > official, since I know how fickle some hams organizations can be. > > Despite many clearly wonderful stories about how radio amateurs have > helped in emergency situations, I agree with Simon's earlier thoughts. > I think that much of the "hams in emcomms" is a scam , or a way for > hams to "play" firefighter/cop/medic without actually having to be > one. The "scam" is the spreading of the concept that us hams sit > around all days looking for that ship's SOS or waiting for Skywarn to > be activated. Ham radio is a communications hobby that has a SMALL > amount of it;s constituency that play emcomm,. The vast majority DX, > talk about recent surgery on 75M, contest, and decode strange > squealing noises on 14077. > > Andy K3UK >
