Text 12048, 70 rader
Skriven 2005-04-22 22:17:39 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 12019 av John Massey (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Off to the Wilderness
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John Massey -> Sean Dennis wrote:

 JM> "Sean Dennis -> Ed Hulett" <1:18/200> wrote in message
 JM> news:9758$POLITICS@JamNNTPd...
 SD>> *** Quoting Ed Hulett from a message to John Massey ***

 EH>>> Hey, we just made friendly suggestions then you and Vern started
 EH>>> getting your knickers in a bunch over the fact that you can't just go
 EH>>> buy a radio and start transmitting.

 SD>> Yeah, I think that's it.  You know, I thought Vern and John were both
 SD>> smart guys.  We offered suggestions, yet they obviously didn't take
 JM> them.

 SD>> Humph.  Oh well, I can't say we didn't try.

 SD>> It's okay.  Someday, a ham will save their bacon from being cooked
 SD>> (sorry, couldn't resist the pun) and once again, the ham will get
 SD>> immense satisfaction from helping a fellow citizen whilst those two
 JM> cry
 SD>> about licensing.

 SD>> Ignorance is bliss. :)

 JM> You two are showing that with every post.
 JM> You offered suggestions, yet we obviously didn't take them because they
are
 JM> not necessary. You can't seem to grasp, I don't have a problem following
 JM> wattage requirements, or other rules. I don't plan on cussing or
 JM> stepping on
 JM> other conversations, and I don't  think either Vern or myself are second
 JM> class citizens because we have a problem being forced to learn something
we
 JM> will never use. Should everybody that gets a drivers license be forced to
 JM> get a commercial license. Should every private pilot get rated for a 747
 JM> before taking up the a C-180?

 JM> You want to go traipsing all over town triangulating locations of
emergency
 JM> beacons, fine. You want to spend hours tapping out messages in code to
other
 JM> people that enjoy that sort of thing go for it, but don't tell me I have
to
 JM> join some club, especially if you and Ed are representatives of how easily
 JM> HAMers are offended by LEGITIMATE questions about unnecessary test to
join.
 JM> Besides I have found that HAM is NOT the only way to make that call.
 JM> Satellite phones are affordable, lightweight, Direct and require no
 JM> Government permission.

Uhh... John, we don't care what you think. We volunteered suggestions to Vern
to help him while hiking. You chimed in and made comments that weren't asked
for or needed.

We hams aren't easily offended. We do things for people without expecting
anything in return. We do it because we are the only ones who can mobilize in a
short time frame. Every time there has ever been an emergency hams have been
there to help with communications. IF it hadn't been for hams both in and
around the area of the tsunami and all over the world, communications in and
out of that devastated area would have been non-existant.

Save your lectures for someone who cares.

Ed


Ed

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