[TalonDJ]

It would take just one instance of "hams banding together during a hurricane" to change the public's perception of the field.

They do this ALL THE TIME.

[BlazingArizona]

They do this ALL THE TIME.

But the story usually reads something like "Hams get aid for stricken family" on page 14 of the big hurricane coverage edition of the paper. I'm talking about hams as a group in an area establishing a communications relationship with the emergency management apparatus of a community, so that in times of disaster they become an extension of it.