Text 12108, 95 rader
Skriven 2005-04-23 22:19:00 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 12075 av John Massey (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Off to the Wilderness
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John Massey -> Ed Hulett wrote:

 JM> "Ed Hulett -> John Massey" <"Ed Hulett"> wrote in message
 JM> 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
 JM> go
 EH>>>>> buy a radio and start transmitting.

 SD>>>> Yeah, I think that's it.  You know, I thought Vern and John were
 JM> 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
 JM> 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
 JM> 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
 JM> forced to
 JM>>> get a commercial license. Should every private pilot get rated for a
 JM> 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
 JM> 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
 JM> 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
 JM> 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
 JM> 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
 JM> have
 EH>> been non-existant.

 EH>> Save your lectures for someone who cares.

 JM> And you save your holier than thought shit for someone that can be
intimidated.

Who said I was trying to intimidate anyone? If anyone has their knickers in a
wad, it's you. This is only a hobby, John, if it gets you worked up this bad,
maybe you should take a break.

 JM> If you hams weren't around someone else would be. Nature abhors a vacuum.
 JM> Your precious hams could be replaced.

Not likely.

Ed

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