[ICOM] FW: Amateur Radio An Embarresment?

[Cyrus Turner]

>From: Sam Neal <n5af at usa.net>
>To: <letters at time.com>
>CC: <n5af at usa.net>
>Subject: Amateur Radio An Embarresment?
>Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 12:33:27 -0600
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>Dear Editor - Time Magazine
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>An embarrassment? I am embarrassed that your writer knows so little about 
>this
>great world-wide hobby that links citizens of the world directly to each
>other.
>
>Please read the article at the URL below. Please explain to me exactly what 
>is
>so embarrasing to your writer about helping  those without homes and food
>under these trying times and in providing much needed communications 
>between
>relief agencies to provide needed assistance to them.
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>I find your magazine's comments, ignorant of any facts, are the true
>embarrassment here.
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>I realize that many comments on this subject have been forwarded to you, so 
>I
>will not re-state much of what has already been told to you. I would 
>however
>additionally point out that almost all astronauts and cosmonauts going into
>space for the past 20 plus years were and are licensed amateur radio
>operators. This is so interest in space related employment among youth can 
>be
>encouraged later, by allowing those in space to communicate directly with
>amateur radio operators on the ground. Almost all scheduled communications
>betweens amateur radio operators on Earth and the International Space 
>Station
>or the shuttles are with youth groups. Apparently NASA isn't embarrassed
>concerning amateur radio.
>
>Yours truly,
>
>Sam Neal  N5AF
>Amateur Radio Operator Since 1957
>Retired Texas Peace Officer
>
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>http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/12/28/100/?nc=1
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