>But one thing amateur radio has that the internet doesn't have is
>independence from the infrastructure. If we can find the electricity to
>power the rig, we can string up a wire and communicate worldwide even if
>every internet server and every telephone in the country is out of
>commission. A generator and some fuel is all it takes to keep us in
>business if every utility service is down.
>
>Don k4kyv
So true. I can run my Kenwood TS-520 with a automotive battery. and it
would be the rig here that I would use in an emergency, since I don't own a
newer smaller rig. An antenna can be improvised out of almost any wire you
could
find in a devastated area. (actually think of the lack of QRN with the grid
GONE). I imagine one of those "All Mode" HF to UHF rigs would be the emergency
communicators dream though.
I know TOO many people who think their cell phone is a life line, it can
be, as long as you are the ONLY one in trouble at the moment, you have
service,
your battery is charged, etc... But we've (as a society) have been
conditioned to think the Cell phone is the pentultimate form of communications
and an
absolute necessity, neither of which is true, just the results of the worlds
best marketing program.
73 es God Bless,
DE Ed/KB1HYS
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