[SARES] two more lessons learned from the drill

The repeater coverage is not like the ones on mountain sides.  Parts of 
town are in dead zones and it is best to have the batteries for your HT 
that run it at 5W out and also have the 3 ft long antenna.

Another thing noticed was the human nature feature of not liking 
unknowns.  This surfaced as the very common traffic feature of embellishing 
the message with things not required by the recipient.  Condense messages 
to the minimum information that the receiver needs to function 
properly.  Say "a fire is in progress at 123 Main St."  Do not say ":A 
Scottish person wearing English upper class clothes has come by on roller 
skates and told me that a fire is in progress at 123 Main St.  From his 
accent I would place him as coming from Glasgow but immigrated to Campbell 
when he was in his teens." 

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