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To: rarestia

Good, so am I. I do not advocate non-hams buying ham gear to use in case of an emergency when getting a license is so easy.

I am however a huge advocate of folks getting a ham license to be prepared for an emergency. Our local hams offer “license in a day” courses and testing during which we get a 96% pass rate. We offer testing before our monthly club meetings and weekly at our casual breakfast. We have installed 2-meter radios in our local police dispatcher office and at the fire department at no cost to them. We have a radio donation program to those hams who can not afford a radio. They are 2-meter radios and we set them up for all the local repeaters. We have connectivity into the local AF Base comm center.


104 posted on 03/23/2013 9:00:41 AM PDT by Ben Mugged (The number one enemy of liberalism is reality.)
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To: Ben Mugged

I agree with having the license to learn the material and learn the basics of radio. However, in a survival situation, the last thing anyone should worry about is if they have a license to use some part of a spectrum.


106 posted on 03/23/2013 10:17:38 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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