'Nothing' seems to work just fine

Here's a comment from DeAnne K5XYL regarding Motorola's Jim Screeden who, when talking about ham radio at the time of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, said in an article published in the Wall Street Journal:

'Something is better than nothing, that's right,' says Jim Screeden, who runs all of Motorola's repair teams in the field for its emergency-response business. 'But ham radios are pretty close to nothing.'

In response to the negative comments given by Mr. Screeden of Motorola in the article in the Wall Street Journal (see above) stating that "ham radios are pretty close to nothing".....

"Nothing" seemed to work just fine, regardless of the amount of time that it took hams to relay "nothing" in comparison to Mr. Screeden's non-functioning communications system. Our "nothing" will out-perform his "non-functioning" any day of the year.

I live 55 miles east of Slidell. My OM works for an international medical imaging systems company so we know from first hand experience that the hospitals in Slidell utilized ham radio and now wish to get some of their own staff licensed.

They, along with many other hospitals in southeast Louisiana have been sending requests to local radio clubs for information on obtaining licenses and help with setting up permanent stations within their own facilities. Our local club is gearing up to teach a Technician licensing class for three medical facilities in Hammond alone.

So, you see, our "nothing" is valuable to those who witnessed what "nothing" can do. In the end, that is what matters.

73, DeAnne K5XYL

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