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It is coming up on that time of year when we can have our ham radio emergency operations tested by some of the elements. We always expect to past this test with flying colours. I am not privy to the postmortem results but the conclusions that we are told to draw afterwards always seem to indicate that we were at the head of the class, again. That is commendable since we know that our works and documentation is what was used to form the backbone of the regional system, pertinent to disaster and emergency, bringing some light into the darkness of the communications that existed back then. Over the years nothing has really changed, except the people, and nothing needs be said, because what we may now have is a result from the progression of people and place, and it is not anything short of what was to be expected. I see this from my elder ham perspective. Many new hams may tend to disagree, because they do not believe in what I believe in, and they refuse to see the reality of the times l...

After 40 years I believe that the St Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla Amateur Radio Society is coming out of the wilderness. That is my view and I suspect also the view of some members of our ham radio society at what I hail to be an historic meeting at the Red Cross Convention Center on Bradshaw Hill last evening, June 4, 2013. I am still alive and well and engaged in the hobby of ham radio in our V4 land, St Kitts and Nevis. Today is just 5 days short of a year since I last posted here. It is not that I did not have anything to say, but there are times when you have to cool out and just watch movements from the sideline, and in my case not upset people with my usual 'different' point of view. It is not my fault if I see things differently, especially when they sometimes seem predictive. Some of us are just born that way, and maybe it is for a purpose. I notice that our society is moving upward and forward, and I think that it may have something to do with our embracing certain spirit...