[MilCom] Responders' lack of spectrum 'cost lives'

[WB5UOM at aol.com]

Well, I havent said anything here before.
I've been monitoring milcom freq since 1967 (before any books with lists or 
Al Gores internet).
And I have been fortunate enough to have been fairly successful in the 
communications business for 20 years.

This is all BS. 

Someone needs to go look at what the city of New Orleans and the various 
parishes and the State spent their Homeland Security communications grant money 
on. There has been so much money THROWN away for BS Interoperability radio 
equipment that I find it hard to believe they didn't do it as well. - Now I will 
say some agencies ARE trying to do whats right....but so many more are just 
buying "pretties" with their money because, well, its free money right?

The fine people at Raytheon Jeppson have bilked no telling how many agencies 
across the USA for the famed ACU1000 interoperability interface unit.

And speaking of interoperability I liked how the new 5 mhz amateur freqs were 
put to use as well.

In my opinion (since I'm the one typing ) you have people in charge of making 
decisions that have no business being in charge of making decisions. These 
are probably the SAME people we see at the local restaurant's with unruly 
children that  ey cant control..they KNOW everyone is watching and they KNOW they 
need to do something so they just wing it. ---And as we know that usually doesnt 
work with the kids either.

David / WB5UOM
Drake R8-B   McKay Dymek DR-22C