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-=> On 01-25-98  19:57, Rob Dennis said to Ivy Iverson,<=-
-=>"About [1/2] Jammer hunting.......,"<=-
 
Hi, Rob;
 
 II> ...  I read, (and crossposted AND saved!), an account by Rob
 II> Dennis, (another VE), about how the Hams got into the act up
 RD> I have a twin somehwere?!
 
Don't mind me, I was asleep that day... which sometimes seems like my
normal condition.   :-{
 
 II>   It's really a mess!  Even in Maine, there were still people
 II> without power 10 days after the storm passed!
 ...
 RD> In some places amateur radio was THE only way to get any messages or 
 RD> information out to those trying to help.
 RD> The powers-that-be in some places had all their great plans for using
 RD> the  cell-system trashed when many a cell-site tower took a thud to the
 RD> ground and  the surviving systems became severly overloaded when people
 RD> lost their regular  phone service.
 RD> At one point a local AM radio station was asking people to stay OFF of
 RD> their cell phones as the systems were need for emergency use.
 RD> So much for High-Tech.
 
That is a lesson that ALL of the emergency services people seem to have
to learn the hard way!  When there is any kind of disaster, whether it be
from weather, flood, fire, earthquake or any other source, the public and
emergency comm facilities are likely to be rendered partly or mostly
inoperative, and in a few cases, (like the Red River flood in Minnesota and
the Dakotas a year or 2 ago), the entire emergency system is unavailable!
Whatever is operational will be probably jammed!  Also, many emergencies,
such as airplane crashes, occur in areas where emergency comms are
unreliable or just don't work, and cellphones are likely to be unusable as
well, and Hams are the ONLY ones that can get the messages through.  But
the most carefully plans of Emergency Coordinators and others involved in
emergency planning can't understand that this is the case.  There are a
FEW CB'ers that are capable, by virtue of experience, training and
equipment, of helping out under such conditions, however what I have seen
out of their emergency corps, REACT, does not impress me.  So the load
falls on ARES and RACES for local comms, and on the NTS to get health and
welfare and other traffic in and out of the area, as well as often
providing the only news for a world that wants to know.  Unfortunately,
though, the Hams are rarely mentioned in the news reports!
...
 RD>> ... People running a generator INSIDE the house and
 RD>> running a wood stove with a partly-blocked chimney.
 II> Their brains must have been half-frozen to even CONSIDER using such CO
 II> generators inside!   :-<
 RD> When someone is trying to survive in a 10 degree Celsius or less
 RD> house they  will do anything to stay warm and not necessarily the most
 RD> sane of things.
 
Like I said, half-frozen brains, though I can understnd how it would
happen.
 
 RD> One family lost their home when their fireplace over-heated from so
 RD> much use, nearly 24 hours a day for 2 weeks, the floor in the house
 RD> and caused it to catch fire.
 
All too typical.
 
 II> ... A good friend was on his way home from work, and he stopped
 II> accross the intersection from a school bus discharging kids.  Just as
 II> one little girl ran out in front of the bus to get to her waiting
 RD> A similiar thing happend here a few years back about 2 or 3 am.
 RD> A guy was driving along a road and found a car upside down in the
 RD> ditch and  had a person trapped inside it in about 3 feet of water.
 RD> He called for help on the local 11m channels and someone thought it
 RD> was a joke call and decided to jam him.
 RD> It took one of the smarties buddies telling him he had just heard the
 RD> call on  a scanner and that is was not fake to smarten him up.
 RD> During the 20 to 30 minutes this twit jammed the person drowned.
 
They should have charged him with manslaughter!
 
 RD> That smarty wasn't so smart about emergency calls after that.
 
Gee, I wonder why!
 
 RD> Somehow his co-ax and antenna did a late-night thud within that
 RD> week,but he  never said much about revenge over it.
 
Isn't it strange how much damage can come from a localized wind... not
one bit of damage anywhere else, not one leaf blown off a tree, but just
one antenna tower falls, and sometimes is blown a mile or more.  :->
 
 RD>>> This was NOT the time nor the place to be an idiot and this jack-ass
 II>> The RIGHT time to pull crap like that is _NEVER_, but some people just
 II>> can't understand that.  What kind of a sadist does it take...?
 RD>> No sadist Ivy.
 RD>> This jerk...
 II> Don't insult jerks.   :-/
 RD> Ok... the IDIOT.. or something close to an anal orfice..
 
VERY close, I'd say... intimately close, in fact!
 
 RD>> the tracking team that was active just for this sort of thing.
 II> Heh heh... I hope you nailed him good!
 RD> Not yey.. but soon.
 
The sooner the better!
 
 RD>> What chip is it?  I can look it up in my cross referances and see if
 RD>> it it still available.
 II> It's a CD4047...
 RD> Still avaliable as of late-1997.
 RD> Radio Shack may also have it under the plain 4047.
 
OK, thanks.  I'll have to check on that.
 
 RD> It is a CMOS chip and static snesitive so be careful with it.
 
Understood.  I treat ALL chips as if they were unprotected CMOS unless I
KNOW that they are the much more rugged bipolars.  And the article giving
construction details mentions that no pilot light is used because even
 
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