SC Dxing wrote:
On Jan 11, 1:09 pm, Dave wrote:

An FRS radio goes a few miles. I can reach all of North America 24/7.
Amateur Radio is often the only infrastructure that survives a calamity.

A hurricane/snow storm can easily take out any antenna tower. Then you
need electricity, then you need someone who is going to listen on the
other side. My wife works for emergency services and not a single
emergency scenario involves using ham radio operators. If anything,
CB radio or mobile UHF/VHF device would be more reliable. And a
stationary HAM radio can only be used in one location. Not very good
if you are going around house to house checking on people in an
emergency. A stationary tower is probably the worst choice for
emergency communications.

Satellite phone. Never ever goes out as long as you got it charged.
Never.

Has your wife actually been in an OEC? Ask her if there's an operating
position called RACES?

Amateur Radio includes MF/HF/VHF/UHF etc. Hams can be extremely
portable, way more so than a CB radio for instance.

http://www.areslax.org/

On Jan 12, 5:56*am, Dave wrote:
SC Dxing wrote:
On Jan 11, 1:09 pm, Dave wrote:

An FRS radio goes a few miles. *I can reach all of North America 24/7.
Amateur Radio is often the only infrastructure that survives a calamity.

A hurricane/snow storm can easily take out any antenna tower. Then you
need electricity, then you need someone who is going to listen on the
other side. My wife works for emergency services and not a single
emergency scenario involves using ham radio operators. If anything,
CB radio or mobile UHF/VHF device would be more reliable. And a
stationary HAM radio can only be used in one location. Not very good
if you are going around house to house checking on people in an
emergency. A stationary tower is probably the worst choice for
emergency communications.

Satellite phone. Never ever goes out as long as you got it charged.
Never.

Has your wife actually been in an OEC? *Ask her if there's an operating
position called RACES?

Amateur Radio includes MF/HF/VHF/UHF etc. *Hams can be extremely
portable, way more so than a CB radio for instance.

http://www.areslax.org/

Dave,

CB Radios in a Car or Truck are very 'portable'
and there are Way More of Them then Amateur
Radios. Add in FRS and GMRS Walkie-Talkies

D'Oh ! - What's more 'portable' than a Walkie-Talkie ?

FRS, GMRS and CB Radios : Simply Empowering
the People To Help Themselves in a Local Emergency.

idtars ~ RHF