 phxmarkWhat Country Are We Living In?
join:2000-12-27
Glendale, AZ | Where is BPL now??? I read that they are also having massive communications problems there. Looks like HAM Radio will be called upon again...
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 MoJeeperThe Stig in 2012Premium
join:2000-10-20
Springfield, MO
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 PoopsmithThat's Mr. Smith To You.
join:2003-03-12
Boulder, CO | reply to phxmark
No no no. This is a compromise. HAM's can have the evening(power goes off) and BPL gets the mornings(HAM impossible). Kinda clever. |
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VHF Handie Talkie: $250
HF Rig: $900
Deep-cycle marine battery for power back-up: $60
Having a major communications disruption in the north eastern US, while Ham Radio hums on and fires up to provide emergency services, due to a massive power outage during the BPL debate: PRICELESS!
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| Couldn't of said it better my self!
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 TXTigermanMonopolies Kill
join:2000-12-21
Beeville, TX | reply to phxmark
said by phxmark:
I read that they are also having massive communications problems there. Looks like HAM Radio will be called upon again...
Gee that's funny. I just got off the phone with someone up there, who was talking on a cell phone with no problems.
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 exocet_cmYou delete it, I'll find itPremium
join:2003-03-23
New Orleans, LA
kudos:2 | reply to Poopsmith
What about CAP? We own the largest privately owned SAR communications network in the world!!!!!! 
Somebody probably was drinking a coke at the power station and spilt on the controls...lmao wouldn't that make headlines.
"Engineer spills coke, Northeast seabord loses power" |
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They were one of the lucky ones... most people are reporting the cursed "fast busy signal" when they try to access their overloaded local cell sites. Hurricanes, earthquakes, 9/11, etc. ... happens everytime masses of people try to get help, connect loved ones, call their day care providers, and others. |
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 opus74Deep ThoughtPremium
join:2002-03-04
Coello, IL
kudos:1 | reply to Gizmologist
Ditto !
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said by TXTigerman:
Gee that's funny. I just got off the phone with someone up there, who was talking on a cell phone with no problems.
I live in NYC and cell phone service was intermittent all day. In some areas it worked, others it didn't and others you just had to keep trying.
Cell phones in this situation will never be as reliable as ham radio, because cell phones rely on infrastructure, whereas ham radio does not.
Ham radio was reliable all the way, and I walked all the way from downtown to Astoria without losing my ham radio signal on 2 meters not even once.
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 TrainBuffThe New Haven RailroadPremium
join:2003-05-01
Buffalo, NY
kudos:4 | reply to Gizmologist
Had trouble with my cell phone at work. It would not dial out and people who tried to call me got a fast busy signal.
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| Unfortunately the cell phone systems are designed to operate with an average of about 20% of all subscribers on at any given time. I'm not sure what their peak usage limit is though.I'm sure its much lower than 50%. |
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