Update from an E-mail from a source I trust. Will check out the CA ARES sites later when I have time:
Check out the California ARES pages (sorry, don't have a link) but the
issue is not at all what has been described in most of the articles.
Basically, the state changed the organization responsible for doing
property management at state park/fire service sites. They are doing an
inventory of all the systems at those sites and finding a number of ham
repeaters that don't have any (reported) affiliation with ARES or other
public service activities. They are telling those owners that unless
they show a public service affiliation, they will have to pay commercial
rates.
To avoid that, the repeater owners just have to get hooked up with
emergency services and provide proof of that, and they can stay at no
charge. Which makes sense if they are making free use of a state resource.
So it's not really that unreasonable a situation, but was blown way out
of proportion by who knows who.
...even before I read MHI, my response to seeing a poster for the stars of the latest Twilight movies was "I see 2 targets and a collaborator".
HTRN wrote: ↑Wed Oct 16, 2019 9:36 pmIm of the opinion that all fentanyl siezed should be returned to China... by airbursting it over one of their large population centers.
Cut, jib, newsletter.
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