RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | reply to TScheisskopf
Re: An awful lot is made of the fact... said by TScheisskopf:said by RayW:Cell phone! *innocent look* Ask those poor people down on the Gulf Coast how well their Cell Phone messages got out after Katrina got done with them. A small generator, a low power HF radio and a CW key can get that traffic out rather smartly, and pretty far. You are preaching to the choir.
We had a talk the other day from a doctor with the LDS Humanitarian Services. She said she was at her mom's house in Florida not too far from the tornado's path (they just lost most of the roof). She had TWO cell phones AND the land line, all three of which were busy for about four hours. Not broken, just overloaded. She said the outdated ham radio was the only reliable communication for that four hours.
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I am not lost, I find myself every time. |
| And there's the rub a lot of our "Telecom Geniuses" here don't realize: In times of real emergency, you might need the communications NOW, and the infrastructure might have gone away for days, weeks or months, if Katrina is any barometer.
With a car battery, a length of wire, a radio that fits in the palm of your hand, some paddles and a set of cans, yer' talkin' to someone. |
