Witless Willie splutterd again and said:


So Amateur Radio isn't their first choice? How sad.

So who said it was?

and

Amateur Radio will be there if needed.


Perhaps it will and perhaps it won't. That is the nature of
volunteers. And if you're radio volunteers are also committed to
numerous other emergency and quasi-emergency relief agencies, and your
emergency is Huge, and if the cellular network is down, and if the
agency wireless communications fail, Then and only then will you learn
if Amatuer Radio was there when needed.

I have never seen the Amateur Radio community fail to responed when needed.

If a service is needed to

suplement other comms, they will not call on or count on the cell phone
network, they will call on Amateur Radio.


Because all emergencies are Huge!

You said that, I didn't.