On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 22:37:45 GMT, "Falky foo"
wrote:

I don't know dude.. use your imagination. Do I have to write a
post-apocalyptic story for you? Ok, let's say that a big ass asteroid hit
the earth and blew up a lot of ****, wiped out all the telecommunications
stuff and there were only pockets of people left, scattered all over. You
rip a battery out of a car and power up your HF rig, hoist up a simple
antenna and start beaming **** as far out as you can. Maybe the atmosphere
is so ****ed by the crap in the air that voice is totally garbled, or maybe
the only people are 10000 miles away and you can barely reach them with your
****ty antenna. Or maybe they don't even speak your language but can
understand some rudimentary morse stuff. Who knows?

I'm obviously not saying this situation is at all likely, but it and others
are certainly possible. Would I spend my time learning code for this
possibility? No, but I can understand that some people might.


Wow, "On the Beach", huh. :-)