There has been all sorts of new methods to connect to
one another via amateur radio. Not ALL of them actually
involve a radio. Things like EchoLink and such, or the
big (for rent) "killer contesting stations."

Earlier this month, the North TX ARES people held an
exercise to pass traffic via radio only.

Not a bad idea to make sure the "no bells and whistles"
methods still work for when things like this happen.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/10/20/how-a-dumb-software-glitch-kept-6600-calls-from-getting-to-911/


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