{"id":10191,"date":"2023-05-27T10:38:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T08:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/no-cellphone-no-problem-the-vintage-radio-enthusiasts-prepping-for-disaster\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T10:38:42","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T08:38:42","slug":"no-cellphone-no-problem-the-vintage-radio-enthusiasts-prepping-for-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/no-cellphone-no-problem-the-vintage-radio-enthusiasts-prepping-for-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"No cellphone? No problem! The vintage radio enthusiasts prepping for disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ham radio users, from teenagers to eightysomethings, are ready to communicate in the next crisis \u2013 be it a wildfire, pandemic or \u2018the big one\u2019<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an ancient fable that Glenn Morrison, a pony-tailed, 75-year-old who lives in the California desert, likes to tell to prove a point. As the lesson goes, one industrious ant readies for winter by stocking up on food and supplies, while an aimless grasshopper wastes time and doesn\u2019t plan ahead. When the cold weather finally arrives, the ant is \u201cfat and happy\u201d, but the grasshopper starves.<\/p>\n<p>In this telling, Morrison is the ant, and those who don\u2019t brace themselves for future emergencies \u2013 they\u2019re the grasshoppers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2023\/may\/27\/ham-radio-emergency-natural-disaster-climate-crisis\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ba1522bcbdf67d6975e1d727dbfc88e83d39a908\/0_0_4000_2400\/master\/4000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5aa153ed430da005720748a59eef3646\" title=\"No cellphone? No problem! The vintage radio enthusiasts prepping for disaster\" \/>Ham radio users, from teenagers to eightysomethings, are ready to communicate in the next crisis \u2013 be it a wildfire, pandemic or \u2018the big one\u2019<br \/>\nThere\u2019s an ancient fable that Glenn Morrison, a pony-tailed, 75-year-old who lives in the California desert, likes to tell to prove a point. As the lesson goes, one industrious ant readies for winter by stocking up on food and supplies, while an aimless grasshopper wastes time and doesn\u2019t plan ahead. When the cold weather finally arrives, the ant is \u201cfat and happy\u201d, but the grasshopper starves.<br \/>\nIn this telling, Morrison is the ant, and those who don\u2019t brace themselves for future emergencies \u2013 they\u2019re the grasshoppers. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ham radio users, from teenagers to eightysomethings, are ready to communicate in the next crisis \u2013 be it a wildfire, pandemic or \u2018the big one\u2019 There\u2019s an ancient fable that Glenn Morrison, a pony-tailed, 75-year-old who lives in the California desert, likes to tell to prove a point. As the lesson goes, one industrious ant &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/27\/no-cellphone-no-problem-the-vintage-radio-enthusiasts-prepping-for-disaster\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No cellphone? No problem! The vintage radio enthusiasts prepping for disaster<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}