We shouldn't oversell the emergency thing. That backfired on
us with the 5 MHz band, which was constrained to be so useless
it would ONLY be used in an emergency. The town might say,
fine put up a 2 meter vertical, and maybe a low dipole for HF
NVIS, but no Yagi's.
Rick N6RK
WA6RKN wrote:
> Just wait until there is a major earthquake in or around Palmdale (That IS
> earthquake country!) ..and communications are cut off. Then hams can say,
> "Too bad, if we had even the most basic 2 meter antenna, we would have been
> able to step in and provide emergency communications for you....alas...we
> don't, so.....".
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