[600MRG] Hams and emcomm

[Pat Hamel]

My two cents =
The thing nobody will listen to is that "emcomm" needs the police, fire,
doctors, and politicians at each end, but none of them have spent lifetimes
training to get the message through.
They >are< the message, trained operators get it through. 
So the politicians with the money throw it at scrambled voice circuits for
themselves, the doctors, firemen, and policemen. 
This is fine until the tower and multiplex computer goes down and the
contract repairman evacuated..
Then they will need the trained ham operator and the wire out the window,
but he won't have a security clearance from feds, state, county, 
and the local constable who remembers that the ham's great-grandpa is
suspected of turning in the sheriff's grandpa for moonshining...
Happy New Year with no emcomm needed 
(the new radios are scrapped because someone needs a room for an office and
everyone in the generation that had the emergency has gone).

Pat W5THT & WD2XSH/6