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I know that there are several providers and most of them were out. I might
be wrong about Verizon but most of the cellular phone were out of action which was my point. Because if that's why most people have cellulars so that no matter where they are or what happens they can contact their family etc. But now as far as im concerned cellulars are not reliable. "Big AL" wrote in message . net... Wrong Verizon cellular worked great in Manhattan during outage. Made and received 16 callsi in 3 hrs..No busy signals or others. All calls came through and we initiated without problems! "mad amoeba" wrote in message . net... I was affected by the recent blackout in North East. That got me thinking of how would one communicate during such an event. Electricity including phones were out. Cellular phones didn't work either. So the only way of receiving informaiton was by radio. My old Sony wm-gx670 did quite nicely. But what if I would need to communicate with my relatives or even cops to let them know of an emmergency. If telephone/cellular/internet are not available what are my other options? Let's say people I want to communicate with are more than several miles away in an urban area. That makes CB radio useless--right? So then as far as I understand using ham radio is my only option. With that you can either get in touch with your relatives directly, provided they have ham radio as well, or you can call some person in an area without blackout and tell them to call police/ambulance etc if that's what you need. Not knowing much myself about scanners/shortwaves/hams myself I want to ask you guys with more experience if the below piece of equipment is what I need. As far as I understand this is an handheld ham radio which also functions as a scanner and can also receive on a shortwave band. So it will allow me to communicate with people far away even in urban setting, it is portable and it will also allow me to monitor news as well as police/firefighters etc. Am I right? Yaesu VX-2R http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/ht/0176.html the price is kind of steep but for all-in-one product I would be willing to pay it. |
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On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 03:07:07 GMT, "mad amoeba" wrote:
I know that there are several providers and most of them were out. I might be wrong about Verizon but most of the cellular phone were out of action which was my point. Because if that's why most people have cellulars so that no matter where they are or what happens they can contact their family etc. But now as far as im concerned cellulars are not reliable. Perhaps not reliable for the "average" person. Verizon kept a percentage of capacity in reserve for public safety, and the new public safety phones have priority, so will knock "no priority" calls off the tower if they place a call. |
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i glad to hear at least someone cares about their costumers. What other
providers besides verizon were working at least for a while.? Trooperdude wrote in message ... On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 03:07:07 GMT, "mad amoeba" wrote: I know that there are several providers and most of them were out. I might be wrong about Verizon but most of the cellular phone were out of action which was my point. Because if that's why most people have cellulars so that no matter where they are or what happens they can contact their family etc. But now as far as im concerned cellulars are not reliable. Perhaps not reliable for the "average" person. Verizon kept a percentage of capacity in reserve for public safety, and the new public safety phones have priority, so will knock "no priority" calls off the tower if they place a call. |
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