Len Over 21 wrote:



TAFKARJ claims that "CB" originated in 1946...except that
"11 meters" is not at 465 MHz. :-)

There was a band at that frequency that citizens could apply for and
use, thus a "citizens band" or "cb".



Because if there were 100 million amateur licensees in America like
there are 100 million cellular telephone subscriptions, our bands
would be overloaded and useless.

CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW???

And that is exactly why the cell network is useless for official
emergency comms, every cell user wants to dial up twenty of their
closest friends and tell them to turn on the tee-vee, overloading the
network. The military and civil autorities do not consider the cell
network a viable means of emergency comms, they do for ham radio.


When the cellsite is down, unaccessable, or overloaded, HOW do you
communicate with your cellphone?

When your ham radio is broke, how do you communicate with it?


He THROWS it? :-)

Which one, I have several, what are the odds they are all down at the
same time? How many cell phones do you have?

Your emergency plan scenario that you are acting out this weekend is
that cell phones won't be working.

Am I wrong?

As far as using the cell network for official emergency comms, you can
consider it not working. In times of a major emergency it becomes
useless for anything but attempting to make a call.