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Old January 6th 05, 04:50 PM
Mike Coslo
 
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robert casey wrote:






Okay, lets consider a REAL emergency, such as a tsunami hitting
a coastal community. Some of the first communications out of that
area is an initial damage assessment, medical aid, requests for
earth-moving equipment, transportation of various kinds, perhaps
requests for food supplies (there could be other things). "Health
and welfare" messages of a personal nature are LOW on the priority
list.



Yes, and hams can handle that low priority stuff to offload
the more important communications links. "I took care of
the mundane boring stuff so the heroes could save the lives"...




Perhaps we should ask the people who are on the ends of that health and
welfare, low priority comms how low of priority those are?

Like "Hello Mother and father, I am alive and healthy, but in need of a
new passport."

How important is that? On the global scale, not to much, but critically
important to the people involved....


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