On Thu, 8 Nov 2012 12:51:12 EST, Channel Jumper
wrote:

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If you can operate from at home - on your own station, without doing
anything or making any effort - this is the point I was trying to make
when I said all they want to do is talk on the radio... TALK - not
travel, not spend their own money, no do anything to help.

In an emergency - SIMPLEX is the prefered mode of communications.
YOU MUST EXPECT THAT WHEN YOU GET THERE, THERE WILL NOT BE ANYTHING
THERE FOR YOU TO USE.

There's all kinds of "deployment". I and folks like me cannot be
deployed "to the boonies" because of mobility or other problems and we
serve as well by manning pre-equipped command centers where the only
thing we need to have when we get there are our training and knowledge
and dedication.

In my ECC at a major medical center we do not accept "walk-ins"
because of legal and training problems. We cannot do "on the fly"
training of people to handle medical and hospital administrative
communications.

If you look historically - the worlds coffee supply was bought up by the
USA during WW II and the worlds TEA supply was bought up by the
British...

And at the present time, Coca Cola is the biggest purchaser of tea
worldwide - where do you think all that caffeine in Coke comes from?

I could go on and on....

And a close friend of mine (an Extra Class ham) was one of the medical
examiners handling the ID of the victims of the Twin Towers disasters.
They were required to sign NDAs so there are lots of unpublished
stories from that disaster. Things happen.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane

Member, Washington County, OR
Emergency Communications Team
for ARES/RACES and HEARTNET

Station Co-manager - W7PSV / K7PSV
Providence St. Vincent Medical Center
Disaster Communication Team