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Of course you won't believe me, or anyone else. But the cell phone network
was down for the majority of New Orleans. I know people that went there to repair it. In fact some hams also helped repair the tower sites. Mostly getting antennas back in working shape, and getting batteries and/or generators up and running. As for why text gets through easier and better than voice. It's just like CW Markie, and if you understand that mode it would be easier for you to comprehend text vs voice on a cell system. But I'll try....It is a matter of bandwidth. Text uses and requires much less than voice does. Thus it has a much better chance of getting through. Even with marginal conditions and basically a cell phone user watching his "s meter" and finding a site to receive it. Sounds to me the ones that got through knew a little about signal propagation to me. Gee....do you think they were hams or had a ham nearby? Just a thought. Dan/W4NTI wrote in message news ![]() On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 21:22:14 -0700, Cmdr Buzz Corey wrote: wrote: Cell phone does indeed show signs of being usable as a true emergency network How? The entire cell network was down in NO. The only way to get cell coverage there was out on some remote point a few people managed to get to and make a few calls. not accrdoing to MSNBC while the netwaork was not working for voice it was working for text according to MSNBC _________________________________________ Usenet Zone Free Binaries Usenet Server More than 140,000 groups Unlimited download http://www.usenetzone.com to open account |
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