Also, don't forget when the last Space Shuttle disintrgrated while deorbiting
to land at Cape Kennedy, because of foam insulation on the fuel tank coming
off and knocking off several of the heat resistant tiles on launching. State
Police, the feds, and local sheriff's deputies in East Texas and Western
Louisiana "tried" to organize search parties using only high dollar law
enforcement portable radios, which didn't work in the wilderness and swamps of
East Texas and western Louisiana. They ended up putting a ham with a handie
talkie with most of the search parties. The ham handie talkies worked a whole
lot better than the $1,000-$2,000 law enforcement handie talkies and cell
phones in the area where most of the shuttle debris was found.
Tom, WW5L
--- On Sun, 12/21/08, HansLG@aol.com <HansLG@aol.com> wrote:
> From: HansLG@aol.com <HansLG@aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Palmdale CA: The rest of the story
> To: towertalk@n4zkf.com, K8RI-on-TowerTalk@tm.net
> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
> Date: Sunday, December 21, 2008, 2:35 PM
> Dear friends Radio Hams,
>
> Of all this talk about emergency etc. Cell phones are good
> but they need to
> be charged too and if there is no power ... The governor
> 'forgot" to declare
> emergency when we had an ice storm in Windham County, VT
> Power was out for
> day, the telephone (land line) service dies after a couple
> of hours and people
> will cell phone (that has sketchy service here anyhow)
> can't use their
> telephones when their battery is dead (expect me that had
> a fully charge 80 Ah
> battery in the basement). ONLY the HAM service works,
> provided the officials are
> aware of this service and calls for it.
>
> 73 de Hans, N2JFS
>
>
> In a message dated 12/20/2008 7:37:41 A.M. Eastern Standard
> Time,
> towertalk@n4zkf.com writes:
>
>
> Exactly Roger. Being in Telecom as a Regional Ops manager
> for a wireless
> tower company for umpteen years, I hear this everyday
> from the public who knows what I do for a living. Even the
> smarter ones
> (they think they are) know about the 8 hour generator
> backup
> rule on cell sites and now think they will work no matter
> what. Just because
> the FCC made them stick a generator at the site.
>
> Well, it's not staying up when the T1 backhaul between
> the sites go down as
> happened here in Florida during the hurricanes. The
> generator didn't do much for that. Until ALL carriers
> have a microwave
> backhaul to rely on for redundancy, they need ham radio.
>
> Not to speak about the capacity to handle the traffic on
> cell systems. Maybe
> the FCC's opening up the "white space"
> frequencies
> will spawn something new but I don't think so. THEY
> STILL NEED HAM RADIO.
> Our stuff works when others don't. I thank that our
> local Police and government realize that. We have our own
> room at the EOC.
>
> 73 Dave n4zkf
> Happy Holidays everyone.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Actually I think the city's approach represents one of
> the greatest threats
> faced by amateur radio. Most of the public, including
> those in all levels
> of government are of the mind set that with cell phones
> the emergency
> services aspect of amateur radio is just overblown until
> they actually see
> an emergency where the power is out and/or there is so
> much traffic they
> can't use their cell phones. Only then does it become
> evident, at least for
> those who can add 2 and 2, that the Amateur Radio Service,
> really is a
> service.
>
> Until then those at the city level (and sometimes state)
> know with certainty
> they can regulate any thing that goes on within or even
> above their borders
> regardless of who tells them they can't. Many are
> quite willing to push it
> through expensive court procedures as they figure the
> average citizen
> doesn't have the will or resources to pursue it to the
> point where the city
> will be forced to comply.
>
> One redeeming feature in this case is them trying to
> preempt, or rather
> usurp the FCC's jealously guarded territory. I think
> that will get the
> FCC's attention more than any one of us could normally
> manage.
>
> Now it the ham could just get compensation for time,
> stress, and money spent
> from both the city and those who complained. <:-))
>
> 73
>
> Roger (K8RI)
>
>
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