I agree, Walt. As long as the traffic is non-commercial, no one ham
should be telling any other ham what can or can't be conveyed over
the air.
And I further agree that emergency systems must be kept in continuous
use; otherwise, proficiency problems get discovered at the worst
possible time, which is during the emergency.
Unfortunately, the system ARRL has chosen for emergency use is an
embarrassing piece of engineering administered by a team too arrogant
to address its deficiencies. These "throw out the baby with the
bathwater" arguments should not be a surprise given the frustration
created by a system that callously QRMs ongoing QSOs.
There is nothing fundamentally wrong with automatic operation on HF.
Shoddy engineering or operation of any amateur radio station,
however, is completely unacceptable -- whether analog or digital or
manual or automatic or attended or unattended.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In [email protected], "DuBose Walt Civ AETC CONS/LGCA"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Define needless? Whys is it needless? Were the messages being
relayed across the country by amateur radio stations in 1920
needless? There was AT&T and several other smaller telegraph systems
that did the same thing.
>
> The idea today is to have a high level of confidence in our
ability to send and receive messages via an RF link in case there is
a need by the nation of in the world. By exercising our systems on a
regular basis, we can learn to depend on the systems and identify
their shortfalls so that in a "real world" situation, the systems
will function properly and without failure.
>
> Practice does not make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
>
> 73,
>
> Walt/K5YFW
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joe Ivey
> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:40 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [digitalradio] Re: 3580kHz-3600kHz Freq Coordination
Info
>
> Rick,
>
> I agree with what you are saying. I guess that no one really
realized what would happen when the FCC allowed this. But I still say
that most of the traffic that goes through the system right now is
needless. With all the communications out there, internet, cell
phones and the like it should not be allowed on the ham bands.
>
> Joe
> W4JSI
>
