Howard, I'll just repeat what I said in my prior message to show how well you read what people post and leave it at that.
"Nobody minds you being a cheerleader, Howard, and I agree with you that Winlink should be a tool in our arsenal, but when you start throwing out such totally unbelievable stuff, all you do is hurt the credibility of the people in charge of the EOC function in your county or state." tim ab0wr --- In [email protected], "Dr. Howard S. White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > __________________________________________________________ > 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) 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/
