Hi de K3PFW, John, QTH Georgetown, Delaware

s the new Contributing Editor for the “Emergency Communications” column, I’d like to welcome you to column. This is not my column, it is yours, the readers’, and I am merely the editor. Oh, I will probably have a lot to say, some of which you may agree with, and some maybe not; however, it is you, the reader, who will tell me what you want to read about. I am soliciting your ideas, questions, and possible topics. I want to hear from you what topics interest you. What questions do you have? If you’ve got a question on something, you can bet someone else has a similar query. So, don’t be afraid to speak up! Admittedly, I won’t have an answer to every question, but I can certainly try to find one. I have been “around the barn for a while,” so to speak, 60 years as a ham, and I’m still learning. That’s one of the great things about this hobby, you never stop learning. If the question is of general interest, it could possibly end up as the basis for a later