Commenting as a radio amateur. Carr is a proponent of handing over any and all public use frequency bands to corporations. This may not be relevant to most people, but it’s one more little “fuck you” to the American public.
I know very little about the amateur radio scene and don’t quite understand the impact this would have.
When I lived in a Western US state, there was some bad weather and a child went missing. The amateur radio community heavily overlapped with first responders and search & rescue types. Completely on their own, they organized and managed a search, mustering hundreds of people efficiently, while keeping local law enforcement in the loop. Law enforcement simply didn’t have the resources and relied on this volunteer hobbyist community for situations like this.
If public frequencies are turned over to corporations, would that eliminate the ability for such a volunteer effort to spring up? Would they have to pay for frequency access and be subject to whatever limits and censorship some corporation inflicts?
Under corporate ownership, I imagine that scenario would have gone more like:
Please donate $10 to help volunteer amateur radio enthusiasts use our frequencies to help search for missing people. For every $10 donation, we will volunteer 10 min airtime.
Commenting as a radio amateur. Carr is a proponent of handing over any and all public use frequency bands to corporations. This may not be relevant to most people, but it’s one more little “fuck you” to the American public.
I know very little about the amateur radio scene and don’t quite understand the impact this would have.
When I lived in a Western US state, there was some bad weather and a child went missing. The amateur radio community heavily overlapped with first responders and search & rescue types. Completely on their own, they organized and managed a search, mustering hundreds of people efficiently, while keeping local law enforcement in the loop. Law enforcement simply didn’t have the resources and relied on this volunteer hobbyist community for situations like this.
If public frequencies are turned over to corporations, would that eliminate the ability for such a volunteer effort to spring up? Would they have to pay for frequency access and be subject to whatever limits and censorship some corporation inflicts?
Under corporate ownership, I imagine that scenario would have gone more like:
Please donate $10 to help volunteer amateur radio enthusiasts use our frequencies to help search for missing people. For every $10 donation, we will volunteer 10 min airtime.
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That’s bigly bad, and another sign that putin’s puppets are out to fuck things up any way they can.
Aw man what a dick.
I’ve been considering getting into ham radios lately, too