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Date: Sat, 05 Aug 00 14:19:08 MET
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>pessimistic (given that I work in related fields). Perhaps you can
>expand on what you mean. What can an Amateur Radio Operator (ARO) do
>that could not be done by a trained emergency organisation operator?
I can provide an example from here in Hawaii. The counties ("islands")
are almost completely dependent upon amateurs to provide emergency comms
during disasters. Here in Oahu County, we have 150 evacuation shelters run
by the Red Cross, and each is manned by a ham for comms back to RC HQ and
the civil defense EOC. Oahu RACES has over 100 members, willing to respond
at a moments notice to provide comms. Each police sub-station has amateur
equipment in which RACES members will man during an emergency. Amateurs
have installed repeaters to support Oahu County during disasters.
Now you ask, "what can an ARO do that can't be done by a trained
emergency organization operator?" Consider just the cost alone of
the county funding the above manpower and equipment which hams provide
free of cost.
This system was put into operation just this last weekend when
the state was threatened with an approaching hurricane. As usual,
it worked smoothly, (with yours truly getting his picture on the
front page of the newspaper [see:
www.honoluluadvertiser.com/2000/Jul/31/index.html]).
In addition, all hospitals belong to the Health Comm Network with each
hospital having licensed amateurs on its staff. During a disaster,
these hams provide intra-communications between the island's hospitals
sharing information regarding number of beds available, supplies on
hand, supplies needed, along with a dozen other vital pieces of info.
>Unless that ARO is current with the emergency network's protocols, is
>that ARO a help or hindrance?
We offer numerous training sessions and exercises which are usually
well attended.
>Being both a professional in radio and an Amateur, I don't have such a
>Black & White view of the radio world. Hobby activities have a much
>broader function that providing a pool of people trained to professional
>level in that activity - usually, they don't.
Note that the U.S. Government, in its regulations, never refers to amateur
radio as being a hobby but rather a service. Our charter reads as follows:
97.1 Basis and purpose.
The rules and regulations in this Part are designed to provide an amateur
radio service having a fundamental purpose as expressed in the following
principles:
(a) Recognition and enhancement of the value of the amateur service to
the public as a voluntary non-commercial communication service,
particularly with respect to providing emergency communications.
(b) Continuation and extension of the amateur's proven ability to
contribute to the advancement of the radio art.
(c) Encouragement and improvement of the amateur service through rules
which provide for advancing skills in both the communications and
technical phases of the art.
(d) Expansion of the existing reservoir within the amateur radio service
of trained operators, technicians, and electronics experts.
(e) Continuation and extension of the amateur's unique ability to enhance
international goodwill.
> IMHO, the main advantage
>of a hobby activity is to provide a wider community appreciation of that
>area of activity.
Does your Australian government consider amateur radio a hobby?
73, Jeff KH6O
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Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:42:13 GMT
From: "Gilbert Baron" <gbaron@home.com>
Subject: WINPSKSE version 2 out.
I have version 2 running and the concurrent spectrum and waterfall is really
nice. Also new is the additional logging features. Also new is more macros.
In fat the only thing missing in my opinion is TRUE capture file ability. It
dose let you save the rx buffer but does not let you do a true capture where
all is saved as it is received.
It would also be nice to have a key to clear ALL windows or a macro sequence
to clear all windows that you could assign to a key.
It is slow to individually clear the Rx1 Rx2 and Xmit windows.
I found that although the help file say that paths do not work for files in
a macro, they do. I use path in my macro and it works fine. ,
<c:\doument\filtest> works fine in a macro.
This is good because rearguing them to be in the exe folder is not good.
The only problem I had is that if you try to change all the font things at
the same time it crashes the program, not the system (WIN2000 though) and
you have to restart and lost all the changes.
It also crashed when I tried to use Tune Key while the rig was turned off.
All in all , very nice program. It is hard to decide between this and
Zakanaka.
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