WWII P-47 Thunderbolt story

..........Which reminds me of yet another story..........LOL

One of the local "2 meter" repeaters holds a nightly "emergency prepardness" "net" where the net control calls out localities surrounding the town, and people "check in" but nobody every really does...................anything.

KEEP IN MIND that allegedly this is for prep for "emergencies."

One household has I don't know HOW many licensed hams, 8? --and every night one of them rattles off a string of callsigns............and you have to wonder..........if all those folks are all in one place, can more than a couple actually be of any help in "the event of?"

BUT WAIT...........there's more

N of here is "Bayview, ID" which is down "in a hole" on the lake. One guy from there used to check in, and either could not or would not get himself a radio/ antenna/ power amplifier that would "talk" to the repeater.

So every night the net control would say, "Bayview, anyone checking in from Bayview?"

And we'd here..........."popppppppppppppppooooooooooooozzzzzzzzzzzzzzsssssssssssshhhhhhhhhh
sssssssssssshshhs ......................pppplsssssssssssssssssseeeeeeeeehhhhhhhhhttt..........."

and the net control would say, "OK mike, K7XXX if that's you CLICK YOUR MIKE TWICE"

and sure enough you'd hear this noise through the system.

........................SO I JUST HAVE TO ASK YOU GUYS...........

If this is supposed to be a "net" where actual intellingent messages are passed, how you gonna do that with mike clicks??????