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!
Bottom line.
Tin foil hat says: what are they planning to do that they don't want Ham radio broadcasting?
The peoples’ republic of california is shutting it down because it can’t control it. Ham radio is self-monitored and self-policed. Hams do not cause any trouble!
In typical leftist fashion, when there’s something that functions well, but they can’t control, they destroy it.
Or is it because it might be offensive to m*slims to hear the word “ham” all the time?
If Joe Walsh (the guitarist) was dead, he’d be rolling in his grave, too.
He’s a big-time Ham Radio enthusiast.
Libs could (and would) shut off the cellular network in order to keep the proles in line. They couldn’t do that with the ham folks. (Yes, wideband jamming is possible, but many xmtrs at multiple frequences would required and even then the jammers could be DF’d and decommissioned by ...er...folks on our side.)
Nope, not paranoid, but realistic.
Never, EVER trust a progressive. They are the enemy.
Bottomless slime.
NEVER EVER.
“This is Radio Clash on Pirate Satellite!”
Divide the length you need for your antenna by the circumference of the slinky.
The left wants to eliminate any type public mass communication that it can't control entirely.
Control all communication. We've seen in the middle east and China that in times of civil uprising the government shuts down all cell phone and internet communication. They want that ability with radio.
Cal Fire cannot be speaking for all of emcomm. Moot argument due to federal preemption, they just want tower rent money.
As for myself, I have been a ham radio operator for close to fifty years and hold an extra class license and my call starts with WB9.....I do believe that the real reason for shutting down ham radio is that if law and order breaks down, and not just in an emergency, ham radio operators still can provide an essential link, something a totalitarian government which is hell bent on controlling every facet in our daily life’ can not permit.
This is one of the first things any government which intends to take total control will do, is to shut down communications which they can not control. First take all the guns and then restrict free communications. Well I think Kalifornia is well on its way and people better wake up, as most of them are too ignorant to pay attention to the proverbial handwriting on the wall as the “Canary in the coalmine” which is an harbinger for the rest of nation has just about taken its last breath. No doubt that many of you have heard the saying “The way Kalifornia goes, so goes the rest of the nation” What dreadful thought !
Seems that California just can’t stop proving just how incompetent and arrogant they can truly be. Just one more action in a long line of them that is leading to the destruction and ruin of the state and of the US by the hard left socialists. California voters getting the kind of government they keep voting in.
I always suspect these things have to do with the Left’s desire to control all means of communication.
Thank you, that makes sense. and fine tuning with a meter after that.
I heard the NSA cannot monitor it.
HAHAHAHAAHHHHAHAHHAA
if it transmits, NSA has it.
Yep, the NSA has their own “Bletchley Park”.
You are absolutely right. If I remember right, totalitarian countries like Albania absolutely forbade ham radio. Today it’s Yemen and North Korea that don’t allow ham radio.
Control over the minds and mouths of the citizens is what the left wants!
Funny, last night on Young Sheldon he coded a message in Morse Code.
And in other news: Multiple wildfires break out across LA: Terrifying footage shows hundreds of firefighters battling to contain raging blazes in Southern California as 100,000 are forced to flee their homes:https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7562033/Terrifying-footage-shows-drivers-rushing-escape-huge-wildfires-burning-California.html
What a pile of BS. I was a LEDO (Lab Emergency Duty Officer) at a national lab and we always used the ham operators during exercises and any actual emergencies. Sometimes that was the only way we could communicate.
California being dumb-ass stupid again. Just after more money.
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