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A transceiver radio,even a cheaply home made transceiver radio with a
telegraph key and a little wire can transmit via morse code around the
World when all of the cell phones and satellites are knocked out,can
they not?
cuhulin


SW Propagation gets knocked out a hell of a lot more often than all of the
satellites and cell phones.

Anyway, one of the original article's points was that the emergency services
already have their own radio equipment and don't need ham radio.

Frank Dresser