said by amigo_boy:said by W1RFI:far more than 20 Amateurs participate in EMComm work and that it occurs far more than once every few years.
How many? And, how often?
What I was referring to was the news reports of 20-30 hobbyists performing communications during the recent Northwest flood. That was portrayed (in this forum) as the reason to protect hobby radio.
Most reasonable people would wonder how significant that is relative to the 650k licensees (which isn't representative of actual active users). If public service is a selling point, perhaps it should be mandatory.
said by W1RFI:Your misinformation is intentional, IMHO.
Ditto.
said by W1RFI:Get back to us when you have completed changing that. Everyone will be most interested in how it turns out.
Be careful what you wish for. It seems to me like hobbyists would be better served by looking for ways to be more relevant today, including mandatory service. Taunting the public to go further in disrespecting their hobby seems counter-intuitive to me.
We haven't taunted the public; ironically it seems to be your focus to taunt us. While the amateur service may not garner the same recognition and respect it did in the past, I think it's far from disrespect. You've mischaracterized the focus on the BPL interference issues as public taunting or protecting self interests. This has been an often used tactic against movements which brought to light environmental, industry, or government atrocities; movements that ultimately were right and brought about much needed change. Granted, the BPL interference issue isn't to that level, but you and others have used the same smear tactics in an effort to discredit valid arguments.
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