I must disagree. These bands are the major bands for ARES/RACES
emergency services. When I talk with South San Francisco Bay
Area ARES/RACES leaders, they have no interest in HF or any
other kind of long distance communication. Their interest is in
connecting Red Cross shelters, hospitals, 911 centers and
neighborhood emergency centers for emergency coordination.
2M/440 are the bread and butter bands for this kind of communications.
While I personally think that long distance communication has an
important place in emergency preparedness, I don't seem to get
much headway when speaking to ARES/RACES leaders in my community.
I also use 2M quite a lot for communication with ham friends
while rag chewing on local repeaters, car-to-car communication
when caravaning, and wilderness trail communication.
I always try to remember that ham radio is a huge tent and there
are many, many places to have fun.
Cheers - Bill, AE6JV/1
On 8/19/13 at 12:23 PM, k...@icloud.com (Reginald J Mackey SR) wrote:
2m/440 is a vast waste land......
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