From: Nigel Hay MILWEB (nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Mon Sep 05 2005 - 23:10:17 PDT
An interesting radio prog the other day focussed on how on 9/11 local radio
hams swung into action to offer emergency communications to supplement the
official services. In the UK, since the 1960's there was a large network of
hams called RAYNET - Radio Amateur Ememrgency Network , its still going now
I believe. They were prepared for such disasters and had regular exercises
and events to prove readiness. When the hurricane hit SE England in 1987
they were invaluable.
During the cold war era, the Civil Defence was provided with some odd
military and quasi military vehicles, like Commer Q2's as command posts and
radio shelters. I remember one coming into the arena at Beltring that was
under the auspices of the Greater London Council and proudly carrying the
slogan "Working for a nuclear free London" - certainly an odd choice of
collectors military vehicle. They were really an administrative
organisation I think rather than hands on rescue, to operate the country's
infrastructure in the event of nuclear war. I believe now disbanded.
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Behalf Of Patrick Jankowiak
Sent: 06 September 2005 05:06
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Subject: Re: [MV] Battle of East Texas - 2005 correction!
Ok,
I'm back, the nephew is gone, picked up by his parents, none of them now in
a pleasant mood.
Now as to the facts; after some checking and asking around, there is no
information to indicate that anything like in his post happened, according
to those that were there. The local police simply dealt with a couple of
unruly punks by talking to them, as they are accustomed to doing every day.
Having a green uniform or two nearby helps in such situations by creating
an additional impression on the naughty people. That's about it, in a
nutshell. Just goes to show how the fish gets bigger every time the
fisherman tells the story.
I guess I got sucked into it. Sorry for the confusion. It's kind of
embarrassing for me.
Anyway, things are going very well and I really enjoyed the last four days
on duty operating radio gear. We were hooked up to the several shelters
through linked ham repeaters, ARES, and MARS. One of our operators passed
some real good health and welfare traffic by which we pinpointed the
location of a stranded woman in LA with three handicapped children and
passed the info upchain to recuers. Might have saved some lives there I
hope! I'd like to have duty at a shelter also, but since I am a radio
operator, I pretty much get put at the radios!
I feel sorry for all those people. Now that I am back in Dallas, I found
out from the news that Reunion Arena and the Dallas Convention Center are
really full, with thousands, and Dallas is not accepting any more.
I listened to all the talk shows babbling on about these issues, you would
not beleive some of the nutty opinions and hysterical rumors out there.
It's going to bea long road to recovery.
P.J.
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