"Dee D. Flint" wrote in message gy.com...
"William" wrote in message
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JJ wrote in message
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I suggest you tell Average Citizen that he or she needs to have an
amateur radio operator strapped to their hip for emergency purposes.

Until they buy into your argument in large numbers, cellular
telephones will continue to eclipse amateur radio for Average Citizens
emergency communications.

You make the mistake by considering all emergencies to be equal.

No I don't.

They are
not.

You won the door prize.

Cell phone is great for communicating when you go off the road in an
ice storm.

Actually, cell phones just might suck when you go off the road in an ice storm.

It is useless when all the local cell towers have been taken out
by a hurricane.

Has that ever happened? Name the storm.

Emergency communications need to be appropriate to the
situation.

Ding ding ding. Give that monkey a banana!

Nothing more and nothing less.

Has ham radio ever NOT gotten through? Did the ham survive that emergency?

Even in a total comm blackout, people do survive.