That is more than likely to happen in small to medium size cities. Luckly,
all communicatiions no longer has to trunk thru the major switching sites,
but there are many amplifier stations built now, closer to the customers,
and which can transmit either of two or more directions.
Danny Douglas N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA
SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB all
DX 2-6 years each
.
QSL LOTW-buro- direct
As courtesy I upload to eQSL but if you
use that - also pls upload to LOTW
or hard card.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "jhaynesatalumni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:40 PM
Subject: [digitalradio] Re: HF Digital Modes and NVIS (iow, short range???
as in 300 mi or
> --- In [email protected], "Danny Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Gee Rick, you mean the whole telephone system, inclulding cells were
> out for
> > one cut? Sounds like they need to do some backup planning at the phone
> > company too.
>
> Yep, seems like I've read of even some military systems, where they
> insisted on redundant cabling, going down due to a single failure.
> I sorta remember reading about one case where they had two independent
> service providers, but both of them ran their fiber optic cables
> over the same bridge. And the bridge got washed out or knocked out.
> Or they had two independent service providers but the cabling to
> get to the providers from the military building ran through the same
> conduit for some distance, and that was the conduit that got cut.
>
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