Radio Emergency Associated Communications Teams (REACT) was a community service group that was h-u-g-e back in the 70's and 80's when CB radio was all the rage. They moved on from CB and kept up with the times, but it seems like the magic did not stick.
While doing some research on them for my next
Off Grid Ham blog article, I was sad to discover that the organization barely exists. There are a few local teams operating but most that I checked do not appear active: Some with no contact info other than a phone number, local chapter websites not updated in years, numerous expired domains. Even REACT HQ does not seem to know about or keep track of active teams.
The main REACT website has a photo of the "team of the month"...from October. Not sure what year.
I was so disappointed. How sad when an organization that used to have a breadth and depth that is hard to understand if you were not there becomes a ghost of itself. Back in the day, every town, no matter how small, had a REACT presence of some kind, and help was never more than a
"break channel 9" away, even in the middle of the night.
I was never a REACT member but I respected them. What a buzzkill.
If there are no objections, I'm going to post this on Survival Monkey too.
Suckage, man.