Boeing Converts 737 Into Bomber. The squat little mainstay of the airline industry will become a fierce weapon for the Navy. The plane's new mission: to patrol the seas for submarines, then blow them to smithereens with bombs and missiles. Chris Genna reports from Seattle. [
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Remember when hams provided emergency communications?. A ham radio operator in Florida paints a depressing perspective of the Amateur Radio response to the hurricanes in Florida. Quck summary: they were not needed for radio communications. They had little to do. The Red Cross, he says, had their own communications and celphones were working anyway. The hams were assigned to a building with two Red Cross Emergency Communications Response Vehicles
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