Len Over 21 wrote:

D. Flint"
writes:
You are obviously unaware that in an emergency, the government can and does
declare designated frequencies off limits to general usage for the duration
of that emergency.


Right, Mama Dee, that's "exactly" what happened after the second
hijacked airliner crashed into the WTC towers, didn't it?

Right...just like the Loma Prieta and Northridge earthquakes when
the government ordered every radio thing be all ham emergency...

Right...just like all the southwest and northwest firestorms had
every radio commandeered for emergency use.

Right...just like every hurricane striking the east coast has all radios
off limits by Order.

It is common for the FCC to declared certain frequencies on the ham
bands off limits to all but emergency traffic in times of emergencies,
during hurricanes is an example.



But, in your scenario of the mind, "all cell sites fall down during
emergencies" and only ham radio can save everyone. In real
life they sure didn't. Don't let that trouble you. We are all
children to you.

The cell phone network is not even a consideration for emergency
communications by the military and civil authorities, ham radio is.