"Bobby" == Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> writes:
My understanding is that Ryan's looking for some kind of post-infocalyptic radio network for when it All Falls Down Sometime Soon (tm). I expect that in that event, Ham would be fine, because there is no, as Mr. Gore likes to say, controlling legal authority, to worry about.
Worse, there may be any number of "controlling legal authorities". You don't suppose that all the existing radio monitoring equipment is going to stop working just because the infrastructure for managing it is in disarray? Or that people with access to that equipment are going to have any problem getting fuel for their helicopters from government fuel dumps? But your communication network is going to become a valuable resource, and more than one tin-pot wannabe is going to want to get his hands on it.