[FLARES] Statewide SET

[Ron Wetjen]

 From The ARRL Letter
Vol. 22, No. 41
October 17, 2003

 > A QNC ("All net stations copy!") went out to all Florida amateurs
 > October 2 to advise of the SET.

Last time I checked, I was a Florida amateur.  I did NOT receive this 
QNC.  How was this sent?  I need to find where the breakdown on my end 
was so I don't miss these in the future.

 > "Special nets were called and scheduled with checkins from stations
 > operating on emergency power."

Must have missed this as well.  I monitored the local repeater for 
several hours, and heard no such net.  (I did hear an Orange County net 
in progress on the same repeater frequency.)

As I originally wrote on October 7th:

"Wasn't there a Statewide SET last Saturday?  I've yet to read a report 
on what happened and who did what."

Keith, KF4BXT Seminole County EC, had the only report of anything going 
on, and he ended his report with "I wasn't real thrilled about the whole 
thing."

 > Armbrust said he was impressed by the number of stations that had
 > emergency power capability. "A large number had generators and large
 > quantities of fuel on hand," he said.

I'm still curious to know just how many counties were active (from my 
initial post, only one cared to respond) and how many amateurs 
participated.  From my personal experience, it sounds like this story 
was slightly exaggerated (and it's not the first one I've read like 
that) to give more credit than actually deserved ... and that's wrong. 
Claiming you can do more than you can actually deliver, will only cause 
us trouble and make us look bad when it's time to back it up.

Just my opinion ...

73, Ron