On Mar 18, 2008, at 2:32 PM, b_s-wilk wrote:
No electricity = no phone service after only a few hours of blackout. No power = maybe no cellular service either. FCC attempted to take over the shortwave bands so nobody would have emergency communication [they failed, thank goodness].
The federal government did take over the shortwave amateur bands during WWII and then proceeded to refuse to return them to radio amateurs afterwards. It took a whole lot of lobbying and money for radio amateurs to regain the use of the shortwave frequencies, and I do not believe they got all of them back.
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