[QCWA] All Glitter, No Substance NationalSOS.com Plan is Dangerous

[Tim WB4BAH]

I am not at all concerned about counting members as I don't let the 
quantity of people behind something form my opinion for me.  I let their 
views, and the basis for them, help me form my opinion. The PRA's views 
seem very straight-forward.  They make a lot of sense.  I agree that the 
NationalSOS plan seems to be very poorly planned.

I am also baseing my views on the fact that I have seen the PRA's press 
release on several state and national sites for various emergency 
response organizations (So someone has heard of it).  Where I have seen 
this I have also noticed the comments regarding the release have always 
been favorable to the PRA's position.  I have also seen, on some of 
these same sites, comments opposed to the NationalSOS plan, which will 
ultimately give us tens of thousands, or more, untrained and probably 
more than not unlicensed GMRS "radio operators" all on their radios 
causing mass confusion.  As to why 85 out of 77000 are opposed and the 
rest are silent, I'll bet that most have never heard of either 
organization and therefore have no opinion.

newsline at ix.netcom.com wrote:

> Go do a bit of "Googleing" as I just did.  The organization issung 
> that statement -- Personal Radio Association -- has -- by its own 
> admission -- a total of 85 members.  Nobody seems to have ever heard 
> of it.
> By comparison, SOS Network is up to about 11,000. 
> Ask yourself why 85 out of 77000 GMRS operators are opposed and the 
> rest -- well -- are silent.  I do not put mucg stick in the PRA 
> position pper because they represent -- really -- nobody.
>