good time to do some dxing while
the interference level is low..


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I'm in western Michigan and we have city power here. Power is out in
eastern Michigan, at least around the Detroit area, perhaps more.

wrote:

good time to do some dxing while
the interference level is low..

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Subject: NY and Ontario power failure
From: N8KDV
Date: 8/14/2003 4:44 PM Central Daylight Time
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I'm in western Michigan and we have city power here. Power is out in
eastern Michigan, at least around the Detroit area, perhaps more.

wrote:

good time to do some dxing while
the interference level is low..

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No poroblems down here.......:-)

Kinda make you want to move to New Yawk and take one of them high paying
jobs!!! hahahahahahahahahah

Les

"WShoots1" wrote in message
...
Thanks, Frank. I'd been to Jeff's site but I'd never read the NYC blackout
story. Fascinating!


[snip]

I pretty much missed out on first blackout what with not being in the area
and in the third grade and all that, but I was a little surprised that the
broadcasters reacted as well as they did back then. Maybe that shouldn't
have been so surprising, though. Stations had more people then and Conelrad
was still a recent memory. And nothing else serves in a crisis as well as
radio.

Frank Dresser

The only thing I noticed here in the Houston-Galveston area, this Friday
evening, is that the cell phone systems seem to be overloaded -- clear past
Midnight.

Bill, K5BY

WShoots1 wrote:

The only thing I noticed here in the Houston-Galveston area, this Friday
evening, is that the cell phone systems seem to be overloaded -- clear past
Midnight.

I thought each cell phone relay site had back up power but apparently
not so, judging from last nights experience in the northeast.


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"starman" wrote in message
...

I thought each cell phone relay site had back up power but apparently
not so, judging from last nights experience in the northeast.


The problem wasn't with a lack of power for cell sites, it was with overuse.
The system is capable of only about 20% of it's customers using it at one
time. When the power dropped, everyone with a cell phone was trying to call,
like trying to put 10 lbs. of feces into a 3 lb. bucket..

On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 19:17:55 +0900, "Brenda Ann"
wrote:

time. When the power dropped, everyone with a cell phone was trying to call,
like trying to put 10 lbs. of feces into a 3 lb. bucket..

Excellent analogy, for more reasons than one.

73 DE John, KC2HMZ

My wife & I use small FSR's ( & Extra Batteries) to communicate during
emergencies. We have an evacuation plan;
meeting places / fall backs, etc.

During a real emergency, Cell phones are about as useful as bricks.

- In article ,
(WShoots1) writes:


The only thing I noticed here in the Houston-Galveston area, this Friday
evening, is that the cell phone systems seem to be overloaded -- clear past
Midnight.

Bill, K5BY

Apparently the Cingular hub in Houston was and still is overloaded. I get
notices of messages several hours late, and I don't get the inital calls at
all. To retrieve messages, I have to use my landline. I assume the voice mail
is stored at the hub. My local cell is working fine.

Although I think it's still primitive with the cell systems, they may have as
the wire systems have and that's prearranged priority circuits, so that only
emergency services can initiate calls from a cell phone.

like trying to put 10 lbs. of feces into a 3 lb. bucket..

LOL That's called a "blivet."

Bill, K5BY