"labtech_one" wrote in message
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I've heard this crap about 'in case of disaster HAM radio is there', what
exactly
can a HAM do that someone with a CB, cell phone, or smoke signals can't ?

A few years ago there was a hurricane that disrupted the area around
Louisiana and Mississippi called Katrina. Amateur radio did a pretty good
job of helping out the

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9228945/

http://www.computerworld.com/securit...104418,00.html

http://radio.about.com/od/amateursho.../aa090405a.htm

http://technocrat.net/d/2006/2/28/985

I'm sure you could have handled it better with your CB radio and cell phone
that had no service.