Subj : Re: Wannbe HAM
To   : MARK LEWIS
From : JIMMY ANDERSON
Date : Fri Sep 16 2016 01:12 pm

-=> mark lewis wrote to JIMMY ANDERSON <=-

 JA> None of the people I deal with have them or ever talk about them. Even
 JA> when I mention HAM they say, "but I have my cell phone for that." :-)

 ml> you should ask them how they're gonna talk to anyone at a distance
 ml> after a natural disaster shuts down the cell networks... for that
 ml> matter, ask those with VoIP phones how they're gonna call their ISP to
 ml> report problems or outtage when their network connection isn't working
 ml> ;) ;) ;)

EXACTLY! And I live almost on a fault line (New Madrid - look it up - 
Reelfoot Lake, etc.). It's not a matter of IF but WHEN. 

Heck, even the local radio network provider said to me one day, "when
the big one hits you guys [us HAMs] will be the only ones talking!"

There's a guy semi-local that wants to get Winlink set up. I'd love to
be involved with that at some level. Just sending email would be a
boon in a time like that! Then of course BBS's have small enough data
footprints that you COULD work them at 9600 baud if you needed to...


.... U.S. Mint workers on strike-they want to make less money.
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