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On Thursday, April 04, 1996 12:23 PM, The SKYWARN list on behalf of Bill Gross
wrote:
>> Robert Walchli <BobW@MSN.COM> wrote:
>>
>> >My opinion is that folks that need to feel power and need to have that all
>> >important feeling of control, want to control who can report weather
>> >conditions during sever weather. This is non-sense. If you need to feel
power
>> >and control, get a managers job, or become a cop, but keep it out of our
>> >hobby. Of course, this is just my opinion.
>>
>> Which raises a point to ponder, in an emergency situation discipline
>> and trainnig become valuable.  This would argue for RACES membership
>> not against it.
>>
Hi Bill,
Agreed, but if you are advocating that severe weather moving through your area
constitutes an emergency, I will disagree. If you tell me that a tornado just
wiped out half of your county, then get that RACES net up and running.

Yet another opinion:
The purpose of the Skywarn program is to provide feed back to the National
Weather Service for their use, not to feed the egos of a few "big shot" hams.
A side effect of amateurs doing this is that many people have the ability to
hear what we are reporting, and in real time.

Amateur's account for about 47% of the Skywarn participation. I don't see the
balance running around worrying about who can report severe weather.

BTW, The majority of false weather reports come from our public safety forces.
Here in Wayne county, Ohio, we drag our safety forces to Skywarn training
sessions, and in the process, a few of them have become licensed amateurs.

de Bob

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Bob Walchli - Amateur Radio N8ZCC
email:  BobW@msn.com or n8zcc@amsat.org