Text 12075, 81 rader
Skriven 2005-04-23 07:28:12 av John Massey (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 12048 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Off to the Wilderness
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"Ed Hulett -> John Massey" <"Ed Hulett"> wrote in message
news:9828$POLITICS@JamNNTPd...
 EH> 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
 EH> 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
 EH> 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
 EH> emergency
 JM>> beacons, fine. You want to spend hours tapping out messages in code
 EH> to other
 JM>> people that enjoy that sort of thing go for it, but don't tell me I
 EH> 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
 EH> 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.

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

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

 EH> Save your lectures for someone who cares.

And you save your holier than thought shit for someone that can be
intimidated.
If you hams weren't around someone else would be. Nature abhors a vacuum.
Your precious hams could be replaced.

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