
There are a lot of factors here, but the most exciting part for me is that I got a community comms network up.
The BEARS (Bitterroot Emergency Amateur Radio Services) is a small local working group of mostly radio guys. Technologically I hang on by my fingernails in this company, but am an organizer, a real one. So I run the monthly meetings without title… this is a rather organic group. I am a good cat herder. I like driving the bus from the middle row.
I have worked with the radio geeks on my white-board at meetings […]