Posted on 10/11/2019 6:36:35 AM PDT by AU72
The People’s Republic of California is at it again; through unelected state officials, California is severing ties to ham radio repeater owners throughout the state, jeopardizing the lives of millions of Californians who depend on these repeaters to operate during emergencies.
Last month, repeater operators were sent emails telling them the State would no longer allow them to operate repeaters on public land without paying substantial rental fees. In the letter sent by CAL FIRE, the state claims Ham operators no longer provide a benefit to the state or public safety. They claimed that “constantly changing technological advances” has made Ham radio obsolete during an emergency.
Keep in mind; this is a state that is currently shutting power down in 34 of its counties because its infrastructure cannot handle 20-30 mph winds without risking wildfire breakouts throughout the state.
What is infuriating here is people are going to die because of this decision. It costs the State of California nothing to allow these repeaters on public land; in fact, Ham Radio Operators pay for the equipment and maintain the equipment at their own cost. Ham Radio operators also make nothing from running these radio repeaters; they do so as a service to the public to help ensure the public’s safety during natural disasters and emergencies.
Here is a good explanation of what’s going on from a Ham Radio operator in California
While paying billions of dollars a year to cater to illegal immigrants and welfare bums, California is now targeting hard-working Ham operators who provide critical and vital Disaster Emergency Communications. These people have absolutely lost their minds!
There is a nationwide effort to Kill Ham Radio
My off the grid ham radio
Even most Hams haven’t taken notice, but in 2012 the federal government launched FirstNet, a public safety nationwide broadband network that many in the government think will make Ham radio operators obsolete. In reality, its nothing more than a $47 Billion Federal Cell Phone Network that itself is already obsolete. In fact, it needs LOTS of infrastructure to function, and it creates multiple, single points of failure.
The real story here is Ham Radio is a threat to the government. We make them look stupid! They spend billions on infrastructure that breaks down, while we can literally take a hundred bucks in equipment, some random wires, and in minutes set up a radio system that can communicate with anyone in the world. Hell, I’ve used my kid’s slinky, some Television Coax Cable, and a solar battery system to build a mobile rig that I’ve used to talk to people around the world — You can check out the Radio Rig Here.
They don’t want the public to realize that we can take care of ourselves, and do a much better and cheaper job doing so!
Yes, it is. They got wind that patriots would use repeaters and are attempting to shut them down through land rent fees.
As a General license holder myself, this is absolutely retarded. There are so many HAMs that take FEMA classes and get certified in case of a disaster in order to save lives that FEMA is too incompetent to save.
Absolutely ridiculous.
I heard the NSA cannot monitor it.
Just imagine if Hillary had won. Many of the crazy proposals we see today would be in place, accelerated, accompanied by even worse ideas, and fully backed by the all branches of government. We’d be driving 100 mph off a cliff.
The Left had it’s game plan. 8 years of Obama to get things ready, then Hillary in the White House to totally gut the country.
They are still trying to execute to that plan. Let’s see how it goes for them.
Art Bell and Wayne Green are both rolling over in their graves...
Obviously they’ve bought their own line of crap that shortwave is the province of white supremacist militia-types.
Therein lies the cause: California has gone full Communist. Much of CA has become another country and an enemy one at that.
They can. In fact, they do. There are a number of satellites that monitor VHF communications.
The left wants to eliminate any type public mass communication that it can't control entirely.
Most cell towers require direct electricity connections with very short backup battery time. Those that have back up generators are constantly having the diesel stolen from their tanks.
IIRC,at one time there was a canyon in Ventura county where the fire department radios didn’t work. A ham would go along to provide comms.
How will deep state coup plotters send emails & messages without being detecTed by NSA? Nellie Ohr is sad.
Another thing Trump needs to nationalize or something. Maybe an EO can help this.
Nellie Ohr (KM4UDZ) thinks ham radio is a viable option for secure communication.
Ham radio is one of the easiest things for the NSA or you to monitor.
All you need is radios that cover the assigned ham radio frequencies and an antenna, and you can monitor it all.
Transmissions are in voice, Morse code and digital, AM and FM and single sideband, etc, so you have to learn a little and invest a little to hear and see it all, but it's doable.
Encryption, to the best of my knowledge, is not allowed.
The clock is ticking
The slinky antenna is cool, But how would you measure it to trim for wave length?
Ping.
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