Len Over 21 wrote:



No, but it is one of MANY in which radio amateurs have NOT
helped in the glorious, noble, and heroic services claimed by the
mythmakers and amateur propagandists.

While you desperately desire to keep the Myth of telephone service
collapsing entirely alive, that isn't true either. While IN an affected
area, the limitations of switching centers don't allow free calling all
around. However, one can call in from OUTSIDE the area. Obviously
the infrastructure was NOT helpless or "down."

For a period of several hours, there was no phone service going IN or
OUT of the area.

Blah, blah, blah, more lennie blabber deleted:

It really chaps your butt that hams have for decades been able to
provide all kinds of ememgency communications when other means fail,
much to the satisfaction to emergency officials who still rely on hams
in emergencies, doesn't it lennie? And you can't be a part of it because
you have no license and can't pass the test to get one. The Office of
Homeland Security thinks enough of hams being able to handle emergency
communications that they are including ham radio in their emergency plans.

Now go back to the rec room of your rest home and see what the other
residents are doing, maybe you can get into a game of strip checkers or
something to take you mind off of your inability to get a ham license.