Thank you Drew.. some good points to bring up. Unfortunately in Oklahoma ham radio "spotter" nets are few and far between and the few that do exist are in the OKC and Tulsa metro areas. Emergency management in other areas of the state have their own spotters on public safety radio systems and took what few ham volunteer spotters that we had.. gave them public safety radios which left dozens of good ham repeaters sitting idle... especially in the more rural areas of the state. The link system that you mentioned still exists, but the system has degraded over the years...plus, it never covered parts of SE Oklahoma where the recent tornado in Kingston OK occurred. We have a DMR repeater in Durant that DOES cover Marshall County where the tornado occurred and Bryan County, where a tornado killed 2 people just a couple of years ago. I can't say if DMR will ever replace the analog repeaters... but since many of the analog repeaters have little or no activity on them, and DMR is growing in popularity, and can be used with "hot spots" in areas where there are no repeaters... I would say chances are good that we will see more hams migrate to using DMR. Until recently the Oklahoma WX 31408 talkgroup was sitting idle just like the analog repeaters... and to my understanding was in jeopardy of being removed from Brandmeister. Myself and a couple of other hams decided to start doing weekly weather "briefings" on it and disseminating the significant weather statements, advisories, watches and warnings from the Norman and Tulsa NWS offices that we receive on NWS Chat (which is why we were approved for those accounts in the first place)..and after a couple of months, more and more DMR repeater owners put Oklahoma WX 31408 on timeslice 1 "static" with more repeaters on the way. I have been in contact with the National Weather Service in Norman and we are working with them on getting set up on DMR... How they choose to use it (or not use it) is up to them. As a volunteer Weather Ready Nation Ambassador, my main concern is "weather messaging" and getting significant and severe weather information out using whatever resources and methods are available that will reach the greatest number of hams (especially in the rural areas) in the shortest amount of time. As hams, we have to offer something new that will attract hams and make them want to return to using ham radio as opposed to using their cell phones and mobile devices on social media, if that is possible. I am sure as time goes on, new ideas and new ways of using DMR will emerge.