As far as emergencies go,,  that's was one of the main reasons I got my ham    
   license..  But in time I relized the people running the local ARES and    
   Canwarn (Canadian version of Skywarn) were pretty my a click group and not    
   that intersted in new people joining.  One time I ran in to one of the top    
   guys for Skywarn/ARES in the grocery store and I walked up to him and started    
   talking to him politle and his responce was to turn an walk away from me.    
      
   Another person wanted it manditory ham have all sorts of training for miltary    
   style operations in emergencies..    
      
   Fast forward a few years, and I finally just gave up on getting in to    
   emergency stuff and gave up on 2m repeater and simplex and sold off my    
   FT2900R.  I still have one of the cheapy china HT's only because I figure    
   nobody would buy one used.  I've turned it on  durning what should have been    
   the ARES net the past few weeks on to hear nothing, seem the net controler    
   isn't even showing up now..    
      
   So right now I'm just working on getting myself active on HF again.   
      
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