"Kim W5TIT" wrote in message ...
"Dick Carroll;" wrote in message
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And it's true, I WASN'T at home-that time. But where were YOU when K0HB,
N2EY, W6RCA, AC6XG, W3RV and
I--Did I forget anyone?- held that nice rrap CW net on 40 meters???


Ooooo, demmit! I missed something good here. That's what I get for picking
and choosing posts most of the time.

It was pretty pathetic, Kim. They suckered poor Cecil into meeting up
with them on 40M CW, but treated him just as badly afterward. I would
advise you not to fall for their tricks.

Anyway, Brian, did you see a couple of
months ago where I posted the question to Dick about just what it would take
for the establishment of a disaster station for CW operation? As far as I
know, he never answered!!!!

Yeh, I never saw his reply. I guess if you shake a guy up bad enough,
he starts blurting out all kinds of stuph, like DICK just did..

And, of course, it's because he knew he was
getting set up--we all know it would actually take quite a bit to be ready
to establish a disaster response CW station--and that was the set up. I was
going to ask DICK if he was ready...

Well.....

To hear them talk, you can make an emergency CW station out of a
Wrigley's Spearmint Gum foil wrapper and an old double edge razor
blade.

They lie.


Oh, I almost forgot- you're STILL waiting for a code free license!
Right!


If DICK could use QRZ, he might discern that I've always held a coded
license, but he chooses to remain ignorant.

"Show Me" has no meaning to him.

As for emergency gear, I have all that in a pair of metal equipment
cases, ready to grab and go, if and
when needed. I'll take along a laptop just in case the need happens to be
for a digital mode. AND my
Vibroplex Iambic paddle for CW.

PAH!!!! Grab and go. All of that?! You have got to be kidding...but wait,
there's mo

I wonder where he lifted those transit cases from?

For power I have a lightweight switchmode AC supply AND an 800 watt
inverter. One does need to be
flexible doesn't one?


Oh. OK. So, uh, don't persecute me here because I am lowly slow-code
Tech+, but where you gonna get that AC and what if your car is crunched;
and/or even when it runs out of gas? And, if you've got all this "stuff"
ready to chuckle grab and go...and your vehicle is crunched, the trees are
down so much that you can't move, or any number of other quite likely
situations in a disaster, how will you choose to establish your CW station
then, Dick? Really, let's drill it.

Yeh, where's his generator, chaing saw, and winch? Or quadrunner?

After all, the need could be for something hightech and digital. But the
possibility always exists that those needing to communicat from a disaster
area will have only modest old
CW available.

The higher likelihood, and I think most seasoned EmCom folks will bear me
out on this one, is that there will be many low-power talkies available,
FRS, and the immediate disaster communications would be through simplex
frequencies on 2M and 70cm, along with APRS stations set up and
transmitting. Most disasters would have high hope of skilled CW ops for HW
traffic, though.

On Guam, we got a little FEMA grant to set up a portable 2M repeater.
Put it in a truch or van and park it on whatever peak you needed it
at.

One does need to be ready, doesn't one?

Yep. And it doesn't sound like you are.

Now, now. DICK has done more than most have.

The picture I get in my mind is
almost humorous if it weren't so sad. DICK, standing there with his grab
and go "stuff," wishing he'd thought to wheel mount those metal equipment
cases because they sure are going to be heavy to drag or pick up and carry,
with a tree or two down over his vehicle and the power lines dancing all
over the place around him...with his metal carrying cases right there...

Oh, the the pain, the pain...

Oh, the humanity!

So what's YOUR enmergency status,Slim? Do you have "permission" yet?

Dick, W0EX FISTS #3939


He probably would be up, running, established and ready to
communicate--WHILE getting the hell away from danger and to a location as
directed by the local net.

Kim W5TIT

As a husband and father, my primary responsibility is to protect my
family.