1/3 of the I-5 is not covered by cellular networks

And thats just the I5

Thats not getting out into wilderness areas

One system (Ham) has less people using it every year and then we have another system (cellular) which has an increase in the amount of people using it

And you wonder why they're replacing HAM with cellular?

Luddies like you would keep us in the past.

The point being that the HAM radio infrastructure is already there and its going to cost more to replace and maintain it with cellular

Aging infrastructure you mean?

"The state cant afford to maintain the HAM repeaters"

Which will need to be replaced and upgraded eventually?

"The state should modernize no matter the cost"

So why not modernize it?

Rather than keeping an ancient system in place

Upgrading and replacing done at owner expense

Because thats their radio towers

HAM radios also suffer less interference in emergency situations and poor conditions in my experience

> Therefore, the Department no longer financially supports HAM operators radios or tenancy

🤷

Again, they've decided to replace an old, dated system with something newer

Shut the fuck up, commie EU shill.

Nobody wants the opinion you Googled.

"The cost to the state is nothing the operators repair and replace these towers at their own cost and do not make money from their operation."

Weez, go back to <#622430373791662110> or <#622430298746912768> where you belong.

"These radios have been used dozens of times to protect life and property when public communications have broken down and failed."

And they can be replaced with a more modern system which is more accessible 🤷

IE, cellular.

The fucking Cal-Fire prepardness brochure instructs people to keep handheld radios and scanners you hack.

It isnt in thos areas tho

You dont have wildfires and hundreds of thousands of square miles of rough terrain where you live so I wouldnt expect you to actually understand.

No I don't, just have an understanding of radio waves and technological change.

Evidently you dont

For cellular to work even just in the shasta area and provide the same coverage that HAM operators provide to emergency services (for free as covered in your own source) they would have to have a cell tower on every mountaintop and in every valley throughout the shasta, sisikyou, ashlands, and grants pass area

Cellular has a higher range compared to those low power HAM sets.

All of which comes at the direct expense of the state

Those arent low power HAM sets

What wattage are they running?

And frequency?

Those arent little radio sets in peoples garages

Radio frequencies is covered in the source you cited

Or did you not read your own citation <:pepelaugh:544857300179877898>

Moving on, your entire premise was "The whole issue is that the Californian government cannot keep paying the maintenance costs for these repeaters" which has been thoroughly and violently debunked by the citation YOU used. Now you have moved the goal post to "achktually its better if AT&T and Verizon get those sweet state dollars instead of continuing to use the infrastructure already in place thats free for us to use."