One Ham’s Journey in Portable Operations
The initial need in an emergency is not food, water, or shelter; it’s information. We hams are uniquely positioned to both receive and send information when others can’t. Advance planning can go a long way toward making that a reality. And a popular outdoor activity can provide equipment checkout and practice.
Despite earning a B.S in electrical engineering in 1975, I was never interested in amateur radio until right before I retired, when a group in our sportsman’s club started meeting to discuss emergency preparedness, early in 2017. We all shared a similar situation in which we had individually made preparations for foreseeable situations, but one element that we had not
