[AT] A little Off Topic -amateur licenses

[charliehill]

Don, there is no doubt it's a good thing and when something does go wrong 
folks that are busy working normally turn their HAM rigs on.  I'm just not 
ready to take the plunge yet, not until I know what I want and what it will 
do for me.  I'm subscribed to a couple of ham groups on Yahoo and get some 
good info from them.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Bowen" <don.bowen at earthlink.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 10:17 AM
Subject: Re: [AT] A little Off Topic -amateur licenses


> charliehill wrote:
>>   I've got my scanner set on the local repeater and I
>> might hear 3 converations a day on there at most and most of the guys 
>> seem
>> thrilled to find one other station off somewhere they can talk to.
> There are often practice nets where net control is practiced.  These
> nets can be anything from just chit chat (rag chewing to some) to very
> technical nets.  One I occasionally join via echolink is on railroads.
>>  Of
>> course given a Katrina type of event where you find yourself in a 
>> proverbial
>> New Orleans where phones and cell phones don't work and there is no
>> transportation then any possible means of communication would be great.
>>
> Several years ago there was one of the ever more common major brush
> fires in Southern California. I was listening to a Repeater in Fallbrook
> as they gave the ever changing road conditions during an evacuation.  I
> was relaying that information via cell phone to a Red Cross Emergency
> Communications Response Vehicle that was trying to get to San Diego.
>
> While parked in Houston at the Red Cross office I listened to a local
> Skywarn net during a major rain storm.  They were giving information on
> flooding and road closures and at aone time helped bring in rescue
> personnel.
>
> -- 
> Don Bowen           KI6DIU
> http://www.braingarage.com/Dons/Travels/journal/Journal.html
>
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