"running dogg" barked and slobbered in message
...
SNIP SNIP
Hams no longer provide essential communications in an emergency, not with
all
the other methods of communicating. SNIP

I direct you to the following URL's
http://www.arrl.org/w1aw/2002-arlb012.html

http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2003/10/29/102/?nc=1

http://mrtmag.com/news/sept2002/radi...teurs_nonstop/

http://www.arrl.org/arrlletter/03/0801/ See San Diego Tribune article

Dozens more on request - or use google if you know how.

You Sir, simply don't know what you are talking about.

The 500+ Amateurs who participated in these disasters would agree with me as
well as the civil authorities and the public who benefited from the Amateur
Radio communications when the silly phones were overloaded and the phone
lines were toast.
--
Lamont Cranston