Natural disasters happen all the time, and HAM radio in the past has traditionally been the last to go down and the first to be back up in those situations because it needs no infrastructure at all to work.
> […] HAM radio in the past has traditionally been […]
You know what’s not like the past? The present, and, even less so, the future. 3G/4G/5G/Satellite phones are rapidly progressing, and everybody already has one.
But even if you were right, how does that address my point that arguing for HAM radio with the argument “it might be useful in a disaster” is basically being a prepper?
