[TowerTalk] Chicago Tribune news: Ham radio tower has the OKsignal

[Dan Bookwalter]

Jim Lux Wrote:
"My point is that the average voter has a hard time
reconciling making
special exceptions so that  amateurs can provide a
service that they 
think
government can and should provide."

one way to look at this is that the government is
providing it via federally licensed amateur radio
stations.

just a thought....

Dan N8DCJ


--- Jim Lux <jimlux at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "dennis o'connor" <k8do at mailblocks.com>
> To: <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Sent: Friday, September 24, 2004 6:09 AM
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Chicago Tribune news: Ham radio
> tower has the OKsignal
> 
> 
> > Jim Lux: Certainly you make valid points about not
> hanging our hat on
> > just one hook - emergency services - when we do
> many other things...
> > But, your premise that state and local emergency
> communications are
> > eclipsing ham efforts does not hold for major
> disasters, such as the
> > recent hurricane devastated areas in the south...
> For days VHF and HF
> > ham stations were/are the back bone of emergency
> communications in
> > those areas...
> >
> > Another arena where ham radio is the only
> dependable link is maritime
> > mobile... Recent attacks by a  pirate boat (same
> boat description each
> > time)  upon private boats in the area south east
> of the Panama Canal
> > depended upon the Maritime Mobile Service Net for
> reporting and
> > disseminating the information to the boating
> community, which was done
> > in minutes, not the weeks to months that the
> formal governmental
> > services would take for such information to slowly
> grind it's way from
> > desk to desk, so that each bureaucrat could add
> his signature and get
> > his portion of the public credit...
> 
> This is probably the first "good" example of where
> amateur HF comms (the
> type supported by towers and antennas that cities
> want to prohibit) provided
> a useful service.  However... it seems that there
> could be viable alternate
> ways to provide this service, if the powers that be
> decided to ban all
> towers.
> 
> My point is that the average voter has a hard time
> reconciling making
> special exceptions so that  amateurs can provide a
> service that they think
> government can and should provide.
> 
> 
> 
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