On Mon, 2005-17-01 at 10:33 -0600, Mike Morrow wrote: > Today, I do have doubts about the practical value of amateur radio > emergency communications in all but extremely rare situations. The > cellular phone systems in many places in the world are surprisingly > robust and reliable.
Both our landline and cellular networks went down a few years ago after an earthquake that did not even cause any damage - just from overload. What would happen after an earthquake that caused severe damage, injury, and loss of life? > I somehow doubt the practical value of HF QRP and/or Morse operations > in providing today significant emergency communications capability > under most likely encountered conditions. I don't know if it was QRP, but HF CW was used after the tsunami. -- 73, Brian VE7NGR _______________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Post to: Elecraft@mailman.qth.net You must be a subscriber to post to the list. Subscriber Info (Addr. Change, sub, unsub etc.): http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/subscribers.htm Elecraft web page: http://www.elecraft.com
