> As a new guy, Tom, I was surprised to discover that despite poor > band conditions, the hurricane emergency nets are all using phone. ? Does the availability of power make the difference?
On a related note, I've monitored several of the nets on 40M and 75M each night this week and I've yet to hear any real traffic. The closest we came was a guy who called in saying he had access to a survivor list. When asked about it he told them it was at www.cnn.com. He then had to spell it phonetically several times -- apparently nobody on the net had ever heard of CNN. There was a story on Fox News tonight about a ham who relayed a message all over the place from someone needing evacuation, only to have the last recipient get on the phone and call the Louisiana State Police, who solved the problem. Why the Red Cross in Tulsa, who initiated the message, didn't just make that phone call instead of involving a ham operator was never explained. Is Katrina the final proof that the Amateur Radio "Service" in the US has outlived its public service raison d'etre? Or am I just on the wrong freqs? Always the devil's advocate -- Craig NZ0R K1 #1966 K2/100 #4941 _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: [email protected] You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
