Dick Carroll; wrote:

Yeah the entire world of ham radio is going to gear up for disaster communications, keep
it all ready all the time. Never happen and ANYONE should know it. You use what you find
available in whatever circumstances you happen to be caught in when the ship hits the
sand.

Dick you have hit the proverbial nail on it's proverbial head! This
sentence should be required reading, and should be tatooed on everyone's
eyelids.

Predictions of where disaster will strike are not too accurate.
Otherwise we could move people out of the area, and there wouldn't be a
problem. Certain areas are more prone to certain types of disasters, but
overall, where and when it happens is a random thing.

Will these wonderful methods be available to whatever operator happens
to be *in* the area? All the old system did was to ensure the likelyhood
of someone on the inside, and someone on the outside are able to talk to
each other.

It doesn't say they have to use Morse. What it did ensure was that
under some pretty poor conditions, there would be a comms.


Maybe you'll have access to all that "spare gear" and maybe not. If not, well gee,
coulda shouloda woulda, but.......

Now this is an interesting thing! Are we to *have* to buy this
equipment? And what of the poor ham that didn't have the resources and
is caught in the middle of a disaster?


Plans? You STILL don't know about plans and what happens to the "best laid" of them? HA!
It's one thing to be ready to relieve a disaster, quite another to be caught inside one
with a desperate need to communicate to the outside.

They'll use cell phones and Echolink..... you know, modern technology.

- Mike KB3EIA -