> PS: Eve, I would love to hear more about the ham relay system.  Since I'm
still doing research so I don't know enough yet, but I've heard of ham
radio based tcp/ip, which sounds very promising.


Hello  Kevin,
I just got the 'Technician' license, but it will take me a while to actually have a clue about operating.

Here's a ham club in Puerto Rico: prarl.org

An article about hams helping out after the storm:
https://www.cnn.com/2017/09/27/us/puerto-rico-maria-ham-radio-operators-trnd/index.html