Reply to "Praying for Rain"

Originally Posted by O No!:

DA, I'm going to be charitable toward you here, and assume you were unaware of all the good ham radio operators do. THEY SAVE LIVES. Instead of ridiculing GB, you should be THANKING him.

During any type of natural disaster, like tornadoes, hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes, or floods, very often ALL communications are out EXCEPT ham radios. And ham radio operators are trained and ready to do whatever is necessary to help.

Here are just a few out of the hundreds of articles about what they have done, from Katrina to the April tornadoes in Alabama:

http://www.alabamawx.com/?p=47462

http://www.arrl.org/news/amate...new-mexico-wildfires

http://radio.about.com/od/amat...wave/a/aa090405a.htm

http://www.arrl.org/news/amate...ons-support-in-haiti

Ham radio operators do great things. That's beside the point. What did GB or rramm do with their ham radios during Katrina or the tornadoes to help make other people's lives better?

9/15/112:17 PM

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