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<DIV><SPAN class=908372322-14092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>That's
news to me a Verizon Technician for 8 years now....I know of one other sig
member who works for the company but he is landline side and one engineer in the
NE for the wireless side but that's about it!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=908372322-14092005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Rich</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
aprssig-bounces@lists.tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces@lists.tapr.org]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Stephen H. Smith<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, September 14, 2005
6:12 PM<BR><B>To:</B> TAPR APRS Mailing List<BR><B>Subject:</B> [aprssig] Re:
Bad Press in Wall Street Journal Sep. 6th 2005...<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>A
favorable writeup of hams in the latest disaster:<BR><BR> <A
class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://www.outlook4mobility.com/commentary2005/sept1205.htm">http://www.outlook4mobility.com/commentary2005/sept1205.htm</A><BR><BR>"<FONT
face="Trebuchet MS" size=2>Meanwhile, as happens in every disaster in recent
times, the amateur radio community was immediately on the scene and ready. The
Red Cross has, for a long time, worked with the ham radio community to provide
communications to and from shelters and other locations where its personnel
were deployed. The Amateur Radio Emergency Services (ARES) was also deploying
hams with their personal communications equipment and controlled network
communications into and out of the affected areas were on the air in short
order.<BR><BR>As a side note but of importance, at least one wireless network
operator, Verizon, has long recognized the emergency communications
capabilities of ham radio. A number of its cell site technicians, radio
engineers and other employees are ham radio operators who want to provide
communications in times of disasters. Verizon's management realizes the
benefit of ham radio and has promoted its use in emergencies by providing
radio equipment and license training for its employees who are
interested.<BR><BR>One reason hams can respond so quickly is that they can set
up "infrastructure-less" communications. They hit the ground with their own
equipment and can quickly and easily set up local, regional, national and even
international communications."<BR><BR><BR>"</FONT><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2> One of the stories I heard but cannot verify is that some of the
people on the ground during the rescue operations "acquired" a number FRS
radios in order to be able to communicate with each other. Some of them even
started telling people to contact them on FRS channel 9, code 11 (911). If
this is true, it shows how inventive people are when they have to be. (Note: I
am told that many ski patrols have adopted the 9-11 family radio channel, just
like CB channel 9 was monitored by some public safety agencies in the old
days). I have several pairs of these radios and extra batteries ready to go in
our emergency kits."<BR><BR><BR><BR>Stephen H. Smith wa8lmf
(at) aol.com <BR>EchoLink Node:
14400 [Think bottom of the 2M band]<BR>Home
Page: <A
class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://wa8lmf.com">http://wa8lmf.com</A><BR><BR>"APRS 101"
Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating <BR> <A
class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/DigiPaths">http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/DigiPaths</A>
<BR><BR>Updated APRS Symbol Chart <BR> <A class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/miscinfo/APRS_Symbol_Chart.pdf">http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/miscinfo/APRS_Symbol_Chart.pdf</A>
<BR><BR>New/Updated "Rev G" APRS <A
class=moz-txt-link-freetext
href="http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/aprs">http://webs.lanset.com/wa8lmf/aprs</A><BR>Symbols
Set for UI-View, <BR>UIpoint and
APRSplus:<BR><BR><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></BODY></HTML>