How will it help you get information out across Idaho, in particular if there's a disaster?

The idea of being able to communicate in the time of disaster does seem a little foreign to many people who live here in the Northwest, that the general idea is much more on the front burner in a place like California, where they have some massive storms and fires and things, or down in the Southeast where the hurricanes Typically knockout communications, but if the traditional communications means are knocked out and by that by knocked out it typically means that electricity is lost or other infrastructure components are lost that link together the cell phone system for example.

cell phones, or even worse, in the event of a disaster, cell phones might continue to function but just be wickedly overloaded by the nature of the situation that's going on.

Amateur radio has the ability as a backup system or a secondary system to step in and help, especially One of the things that HAMS are particularly good at is health and welfare information.

You know, information about families.

How is the family doing? Or are you safe from a particular disaster? We can get messages out usually when other means fail.

And the linking system gives us the opportunity over a very wide area to use very simple, typically inexpensive radios to link together these repeaters so that you can get a message.

Can you talk about how your club prepares to help out during events like these? Because I understand you do quite a bit of training.