JJ wrote in message ...
William wrote:

JJ wrote in message ...

William wrote:


You just cannot bring yourself to say that cellular telephones have
any use whatsoever in an emergency.

For handling official emergency traffic they are not of any use, that is
why the military and civil officials dismiss them completely from their
emergency planning. They do include ham radio.


Lemme see.

Emergency planners have cell phones tagged to their belts, right?

Sure they do,

Hmmm? wonder why?

but in the case of a 9/11 emergency they would be hard
pressed to use them. Cell phone are great during the planning, but when
the real emergency comes, they become useless for emergency comms.

They do, huh? So rather than flipping open their cell phone and
stating "dial EOC," they race back to the EOC and invoke a 100% recall
of emergency responders without even trying their cell.

Emergency planners don't have ham radio tagged to their belts, right?

If they are licensed hams they might have.

And the chances of that are?

They probably have a greater chance of gettin thru on their cell
phones than they do being licensed.

Why would they if they were
not licensed?

They would have an amateur hooked to their belt keying the PTT button.

Face it billyboy, for the real comms needed in an
emergency situation, the cell network is not considered by emergency
officials to be of use, they do consider ham radio.

Yet they wouldn't be w/o that cell on their hip. Wonder why?