In article , Alun
writes:

JJ wrote in news:
:

William wrote:

Hah, funny one. I've seen amateur towers fall over. It can be months
or years if they're ever replaced at all.

Even if my tower should fall over, I can string up antennas and be back
on the air in hours of not minutes. Can you do that with your cell phone?

Of course he can't

Cell phones need towers to operate?

My wife and I keep our cell phone in the car's glove compartment.
Hasn't fallen yet. :-)

However, if there's a NEED to operate on HF from a disaster area,
I'd rather depend on an Army National Guardsman walking into it
carrying an AN/PRC-104 HF transceiver. No tower needed. Whip
antenna is tuned by a built-in automatic antenna coupler anywhere
in the HF spectrum. Thousands of them operational since before
1986.

LHA / WMD