col·lab·o·ra·tive
Co Labor, as in working together towards a common goal.
The art and science of providing emergency and disaster communication is not a solo sport. You can’t do it all by yourself. Communication involves moving a message from one intelligent being to another. We may not all be Einsteins, but we did pass a license exam, OK?
Providing communication support to a served agency, government or nongovernment, requires teamwork and planning. We’ve already talked about planning, and will definitely revisit it in the future. It is the only way we can be assured of providing the absolute best service we can offer to our clients. And we are serving clients. The information we pass is for their use, not ours.
I will agree that this great hobby of ours includes those who, for their own reasons, prefer to go it alone. And there are some stellar examples in the DX competitions that leave me gasping; how one individual can bring that much concentration and effort to a task over long hours, amassing an impressive score. But then what happens when we get a
