At 01:19 PM 09/29/08, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
I'm deeply sorry to hear about the Amateur operators who clearly couldn't be
bothered with a distress call until they were asked. They are not qualified
to be Hams and should have lost their licenses.
I believe that as there is less and less emphas
Good going Keith!
An experienced operator would have closed the loop for you with a service
message informing you of the outcome.
I've relayed such traffic and the first thing the fire service wants to know
is where the person who reported it is located. They want to confirm that
he/she is not
About 15 yrs ago, I traveled up into the mountains in CA with my TenTec
Argonaut for a one man FD operation. I arrived a bit before the start
of the event and noticed the hillside across the valley from me was
burning. I placed a "help needed here" call and finally got a person in
the area. I as
Often plain language is best. The special calls are for *trained* operators
who recognize them quickly even buried in QRM.
Every marine or aircraft operator will tell you there's nothing more
arresting than suddenly hearing SOS pounded out in Morse or Mayday on voice.
Even listening to playback o
involved even though it was just to get
somebody else to actually help him.
73, de Jim KG0KP
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A very good idea. I'll bet not very many know about it unless they are
old timers. A lot of people were preoccupied with the Washington State
Salmon Run last weekend. Most activity was on 80 and 75 because of the skip.
I wonder how many would have taken time out to help if they had been awar
Good question. That's why I asked it :-)
In that situation I think I'd use, alternately, QRRR and SOS if I couldn't
raise someone directly, sort of like McBride did from the Titanic back in
1912, sending alternately CQD and SOS.
Ron AC7AC
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> I wonder if the Ham injur
I wonder if the Ham injured in the mountains knew to use "QRRR"? I
wonder
how many Hams today know what it means?
Perhaps he got lucky hearing that guy tune up and getting an answer
to his
call before he needed it.
Ron AC7AC
I wonder if he would be advised to use "QRRR", if most hams
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