🚀 go-pugleaf

At 08:25 AM 5/30/96 -0500, you wrote:
>I spent most of yesterday trying to find one morsel of support for the
>scare about those satellite people taking our 2m and 70cm bands away..
>I've found a lot of stuff about bands around ours, but nothing about the
>amateur bands themselves.  I hope Rob can present to us exactly how he
>verified that this threat really exists..  I'd be very interested to know
>if this really IS a threat, but so far it looks pretty boneless.
>
>Those of you newer to the net may not be terribly familiar with this, but
>LOTS of scams fool LOTS of people.  (Heck.. people on the net are still
>sending Craig Shergold get well cards!) Before you pass *anything* on that
>relays a threat and asks for immediate action, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
>research it and make sure you can verify it FIRST HAND BY YOURSELF.  The
>fact that this was relayed over lots of listservs and lots of other people
>are doing it DOES NOT MEAN ANYTHING.
>
>And DON'T just believe it because it names people and cites sources..  I
>can sit here and whip up something that will look great on the surface,
>but if you check it out a little bit, it'll be very apparent that I'm
>very full of it very quickly.  Make sure you can find the same
>information the warning is giving you by yourself.
>
>-Circ (a.k.a. Jeremy Charles)
>jeremyc@cs.wisc.edu
>

Well I shall have an excellent opportunity to uncover the truth this
weekend. I am attending the Tri-State convention in Sioux City, IA and Rick
Palm, K1CE, ARRL Field Services Mgr, will be giving presentations. Can't
stand any closer to the horse's mouth than that !   Stay Tuned.
Ron Clark    N0POM
Emergency Coordinator-Sarpy County, NE
E-Mail  ronc@top.net
             a0321544@metro.mccneb.edu
Packet  N0POM@WB0BLR.#WIA.IA.USA.NA

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