EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

Introducing Our New EmComm Editor

We’d like to welcome Stan Broadway, N8BHL, as the newest member of the CQ family. Stan comes to the post of Emergency Communications Editor with a wide-ranging emergency communications background, both in amateur radio and professionally. We asked Stan to introduce himself before getting into the meat of his first column. – W2VU

In a gas station job I had while in high school, I was told by the “old training guy” something that’s stuck with me over all these years: “There’s no such thing as a bad experience … there is only experience!” With that to help shape a positive outlook, I have had the wonderful opportunity to do what I loved in life (journalism, computers, music, volunteer and professional firefighting). I dabbled with radio in 1964 as a Novice and walked away. In 1979, I listened to the local