Riiiight...I can just see a Billion-dollar tourist industry "relying" on ham
radio in Times of Troubles to keep their many lines of communications
going during all those natural disasters that beset the Islands all the
time. Riiiight...and there's no military on the Islands other than the
USCG...not even the USARPAC with their Army callsign ADA. :-)


Well Hawaii did get hit by a big hurricane about 10 years ago.
Some of the smaller islands took it the hardest, and hams
on 2 meters were the only surviving communications for a
short while. Between islands. Doesn't happen every day though....