That's for sure. I think that too many in emergency and disaster communications take the Internet and phone service for granted. But we have places with 50 miles of my home QTH that have neither cell phone, POTS or Internet connectivity and even law enforcement has a hard time getting communications in and out that area. Then in west Texas, there are hundreds of square miles with no cell phone, POTS or Internet connectivity except within 5 or so miles either side oa a major highway.
For the longest time there were a number of rancher/farmer hams in west Texas who held an early morning net on 75M and a noon-time net on 40M and then checked into the Texas Traffic Net in the evening on 75M. They had no other communications. 73, Walt/K5YFW -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jose A. Amador Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 5:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [digitalradio] 7050kHz-7100kHz SSB vs Digi Data/Texting [stuff deleted] And it is good that Bonnie reminds the group how life goes where there is no telephone and no Internet...the world is far from uniform development, something that is forgotten quite often. 73, Jose, CO2JA
