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I'm Mormon and that's where I  ended up getting my license. We do a weekly regional emergency comms net that pretty much covers a large chunk of Eastern WA and into Northern Idaho through a linked repeater system. There are also HF nets. I had an interest in ham radio dorkdom since I was a kid but this gave me the excuse I needed to find the time to get it. I started a tech prep class and got bored with it so I went to the general prep class instead. I had self studied enough to be able to make the transition. I tested tech and general at the same session.

Ya, we are pretty much prepper minded. The church likes to call it "being self reliant."

I've been involved in volunteer based emergency services for a couple of decades in the small communities that I have lived in and I have seen first hand what it looks like to be totally unprepared to handle a day without "essential services", let alone an extended period of time. Not a pretty thing to see. I wouldn't want to experience it. My wife and I started small, 72 hour type of prep and we just build on that.

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