[Scan-DC] Charles County Sheriff's Dept

[Dewey]

Maybe I'm missing something, but the original post stated "Could be a drill
I guess".  He did not jump to a conclusion, but merely offered what he
though it could have been.  Now, should an amateur take one person's guess,
and then run with it without first verifying the facts?  Just because they
called for "all" units, and told them to report to the "armory" doesn't have
to mean a bad event, or a drill of a bad event.  I see that one reply said
that this was related to the new trunking system, and getting set up for it.
That sounds very familiar!  When DC switched over, guess where entire units
were told to report... yup, the armory.  Once at the armory, Motorola reps
set a feverish pace at swapping out the mobile radios as the cars arrived.

So with all that said, as one of those public servants (from another
jurisdiction) whose "sense" and "professional thinking" has been questioned,
I'll hop down off my soapbox for now.  Besides, during the hurricanes in
Florida last summer, wasn't it an erroneous transmission from an amateur
that reported that an entire hospital had collapsed?  As a ***human
being***, I know that we will all make mistakes every now and then.

Dewey


-----Original Message-----
From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of Vic/Johanna Culver
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 15:13
To: al; scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] Charles County Sheriff's Dept


Gentlemen -- you know.... in Amateur Radio emergency communication drills we
tend to be very careful to precede and follow EVERY possibly inflammatory
statement/message/transmission with the word "DRILL" or something like that
so that the whole system doesn't come unglued.  Don't these 'public
servants' have any sense that there is a real potential for unanticipated
consequences from calls/broadcasts like this/that?  Oh, sure -- they will
certainly say that nobody should HEAR what they say -- but people do hear,
and they WILL hear, and as sure as I'm concerned about this, someday there
is going to BE an unanticipated consequence, and somebody will suffer
greatly from it.  Does this make any sense to anybody else?  For my money,
our Public Servants really ought to start thinking a little bit more
professionally as regards their gaming and drills communications.  After
all, if AMATEURS can think of these things, why can't the PROFESSIONALS?
I'll hop down off the soapbox now, thank you very much.  Vic

-----Original Message-----
From: scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:scan-dc-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of al
Sent: Friday, January 28, 2005 1:11 PM
To: scan-dc at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Scan-DC] Charles County Sheriff's Dept



>  Not sure what's going on with the Sheriff's dept but they just sounded
> their emergency tone on all their freqs & put out a "all D-1 units report
> to the Armory" call.
>
>  Heard comm's to 2 or 3 of the command units,ie car 100,car 130.
>
>  Never heard this type call before.Could be a drill I guess.
>
>  Al
>--
>al dudley ....wash dc , usa
>  ald61650 at comcast.net
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>  pro 26,2006,2052
>pcr1000,r100
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  This was related to the new trunking system & getting setup for it.

  Al

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