"William" wrote in message
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JJ wrote in message
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I suggest you tell Average Citizen that he or she needs to have an
amateur radio operator strapped to their hip for emergency purposes.

Until they buy into your argument in large numbers, cellular
telephones will continue to eclipse amateur radio for Average Citizens
emergency communications.

You make the mistake by considering all emergencies to be equal. They are
not. Cell phone is great for communicating when you go off the road in an
ice storm. It is useless when all the local cell towers have been taken out
by a hurricane. Emergency communications need to be appropriate to the
situation. Nothing more and nothing less.

Dee D. Flint, N8UZE