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Rose Parade Ham Club to disband after being rebuffed by parade officials.
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January 3rd 06, 04:34 AM posted to rec.radio.amateur.policy
an_old_friend
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Rose Parade Ham Club to disband after being rebuffed by parade officials.
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From: No Roses on Jan 2, 8:51 am
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The radio group has also tracked floats with global positioning devices and
installed a dozen video cameras up and down the parade route.
Why?!? The "Rose Parade" (Tournament of Roses) is, for over
90 percent of its route a STRAIGHT LINE along Colorado Blvd.
in Pasadena. Good grief, any deviation from the assigned route
could be telephoned in from public call boxes all along
Colorado! :-) Total route length is no more than 5 miles.
but of course only hams can handle it
The floats aren't high-speed vehicles. They can be tracked
on foot by anyone able to walk. Some of the "white suiters"
(parade officials) use little motor scooters along the route.
At least FOUR major network/cable TV camera setups (multiple,
each one) covered this year's event, rain-soaked though it
was. Good grief, even Home and Garden Television cable
channel covered the 2006 parade!
Pasadena PD was out in force again...as well as paramedic
ambulances of the Pasadena FD. Both have fine two-way radios
that they use around the clock, a system in-use for decades
in Pasadena. In addition to that, the float builders have
their own HTs they use in moving to the parade start point
and for the ending assembly area.
of course some day an earthquake will happen and the whole system will
die instantly
just like the cell system died at once in a katrina despite the fact it
was still text messages
The negotiations finally broke down Sunday, when the radio amateurs' board
voted to back out of the Jan. 1, 2005, parade.
Okay, so, from that sentence, this Pasadena newspaper story
is from 2004, not last year.
Lords of Light
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