[RFI] Re: [TenTec] BPL, RFI & FCC

[Jim Brown]

On Thu, 20 May 2004 11:36:29 -0400, doc wrote:

>The 911 Commission hacks have asked why there were communications
>failures, some organizational, some technological.  Someone
>from the ARRL could readily address the common failures of
>public service communications in disasters and why and how
>Amateur Radio is the best qualified resource to fill-the-gap.

The communications failures on 9/11 happened in the first hour of the
disaster (or more correctly, in the planning that led up to it). It is
ludicrous to suggest that hams could have mobilized in that time to have made
a difference in the loss of life during those first couple of hours. 

Jim Brown K9YC