[aprssig] wilderness protocol cq

[K7FTP]

If it were an actual emergency I would hope that you would have tried to 
find local repeaters, and scanned for other active simplex/duplex 
communications.  Relying on WP is not a good idea.  Some of us do monitor 
146.52 MHz, but that should not be the ONLY means you try to use in a real 
emergency.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mr Jeffrey L Ross" <radiooperator at comcast.net>
To: "TAPR APRS Mailing List" <aprssig at tapr.org>
Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 8:05 AM
Subject: [aprssig] wilderness protocol cq


> hi all, just came back from the woods,camp, and called cq on 14652 
> everyhour on the hour, 4 mins after, for four days, and heard not a single 
> ham. And this was near a major city. Muskegon, West Michigan. Placed my 
> icon,note on aprs just to better my chances at a qsl. Sure glad I did not 
> need my ham radio to rescue me. Why no one listens to simplex (national 
> calling freq) 146520 mhz beats me. Hams, program it in your rigs, be 
> ashamed if a life could be saved but no one was listening. I call em 
> non-hams., hi
> give it a try again next year.
>
>
> West Michigan, TURN ON YOUR RADIOS.
>
>
> KC8GKF
>
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