I've posted stories (HERE- HERE and HERE) about how virtually EVERY governmental agency from the Feds on down to the local level will be spending literally hundreds of millions of scarce dollars over the next year and a half getting new radio systems.
Spending YOUR tax dollars to do so.
Under the guise of "homeland security-" these changes could also well affect the ham radio operators nationwide- according to this story in the SPRINGFIELD (MO) NEWS-LEADER (SN-L).
Ham radio operators are vital in times of disasters- when regular communication means are curtailed (see historic Japan quake for instance) and if passed- this bill would make all current ham radio equipment obsolete.
When told of the effects the bill he is co-sponsoring would have on ham radio operators- Long replied "...that was news to him."
'Lock-Step' Long said "he co-sponsored the bill because (Homeland Security Chairman Rep.Peter) King, the homeland security chairman, asked him to...."
Isn't it good we (they) elect politicians who actually READ the legislation that SOMEONE ELSE tells them to vote for?
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2 comments:
Lazy ass politicians worthless waste of good oxygen.
Good story Capt. What this jackball fails to realize is that one day his very community may need these very frequencies to protect those that voted his useless, un-informed, butt into office. Here is what likely went down. One of the big teleco's has probably lobbied and bought there way into the pocket of those involved. Washington at it's finest. And since a telco has more money then the ham radio community there won't be any common sense at play.
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