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Cell phones are the LEAST reliable equipment - not the most. Even in New York - at least 25% of all the cell towers were down and the ones that were not, were over taxed to the point of where they also failed - because they were not designed to be used with more then the average amount of users and they were overloaded. If the calamity is so bad that it wipes out MA BELL - you can bet your dupah that it will also talk out most of the cell towers, public service communications, electrical power etc.... A real ham maintains a battery bank and has real radio equipment, towers, antennas, transceivers etc.... I tried to relate this information to our local ham radio clubs two years ago, the problem being that we have never experienced real storms of such a magnitude as what Hurricaine Sandy was and we were not prepared... The mindset here was that our local repeaters would save us, and when the lights went out and no one knew how to control the local repeaters - we lost many people who could have helped - because no one could hear them, because the linked repeater system unlinked. The Walkie talkie serves a couple of good purposes - if you have a flat tire, you can place it under the tire to keep the vehicle from rolling away. You can use it instead of stones if you want to skip it over a body of water. Or you can use it as a flashlight if the display is bright enough. It is the last radio you should buy and not the first. It doesn't talk anywhere - except the one or two local repeaters and it doesn't do anything - unless you are working with some friends that are also hams - doing some type of chore such as field days or a ham fest where you want personal communications...
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