Provinzen machen Amateur-Funker zu einem offiziellen Teil der extremen Wetterplanung

This is actually a pretty good idea. Amateur radio has been part of national disaster and emergency response for decades. We’re part of [municipal emergency](https://bc.211.ca/agency-details/vector-vancouver-emergency-community-telecommunications-organization-9488691/) response, and aid with Search and Rescue efforts. We are used for various events, such as the 2005 Edmonton World Masters games, as well as the annual Vancouver Sun Run.

Ham radio has reliably been a backbone for health and wellness traffic in disasters, because we keep working when the local telecoms go down. Spinning up a net to move that traffic in and out of an affected area is trivially easy for us. We drill on it all the time, and we know how to drop a repeater into place quickly for a given region. I’ve seen mobile stations that pack into a Pelican case the size of a briefcase and run off a car battery. Put that next to a mobile cell tower, which needs a generator to keep it alive, a physical tie into the main network, and a trailer just to haul it, and the difference in speed and flexibility is obvious.

CW (aka Morse code) is also just [faster than texting](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRuRE-Bwk1U), and it’s even[ faster now](https://www.rufzxp.net/) with improved hardware and automated decoders. It also works with poor signal reception (you can communicate globally with just as little as 5W of power).

Using us in this fashion is already being done in BC (I personally have worked with Vector in the past) but making it an official program nationwide makes sense.