No, our repeaters were up and running. There are repeaters around here that
aren't even connected to the mains

btw, cell phones were in trouble, they can't handle all of those calls to
911 "what happened to the power?" - pagers were out, and the local tv
stations were down. I found out what was going on (my e-mail and homepage
were down too) via those repeaters. Funny how that happens just when folks
are convinced that there is no need for amateur radio what with telephones,
cell phones, internet, etc.



73 from Rochester, NY
Jim

"Vshah101" wrote in message
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From: Robert Casey

Dropping the code caused the blackout?

No, but with cell phones down, all communications was lost - except to
those
that knew Morse code.





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