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The one part you fail to address is the simple fact that if everything goes down the tubes to the point only ham operators are ‘up and running’ nobody but other ham operators will hear them....(chuckle)

It wasn't the point of the article nor of my comments to "address this issue", but you're incorrect. When emergency communication is required, it's not relevant who is hearing the hams, what IS relevant is that hams hear one another -- AND they get the messages through.

I've personally passed emergency traffic, health-and-welfare traffic and other forms of data to people looking for their loved ones after a disaster. I've passed simple "greetings" messages along (that during times of a non-emergency could easily have been passed on a telephone), but it certainly gives us practice to do so, and when a youngster gets a "telegram" from their granny through a Ham Radio Operator - their eyes light up.

It's about service to the community. I was a "Radioman" for 26 in the Air Force and not to denigrate CB, there simply is nothing for a CBer to do these days on their little 2 Mhz wide bandwidth, other than listen to cussing and screaming and noise. /shrug.

As for your remarks about Romney doing those things.. no, I'd certainly reconsider if he simply admitted that 1) He was ignorant at the time of INFRASTRUCTURE failures around the country where hams save the day and 2) simply apologized for his remarks to the Amateurs of his STATE (You know the place where he was GOVERNOR!?)