As a side note, how do TV stations manage to get mobile phone calls/signals
to people in the storm when it is obvious that the system would be down?

Are they using satellite phones or something???


"Stephen Newlyn" wrote in message
...
Approximate Schedule for relay of ABC Queensland appears to be

Australian Day Time 11650 Khz 2100 UTC onwards
Australian Night Time 6020 Khz 1000 hours UTC onwards

--
-----------------
**Save the HF (Shortwave) Radio Spectrum! Eliminate Broadband over Power
Lines!!!
**Stephen Newlyn, VK5VKA. G'day from the City of Elizabeth, South
Australia.
***Visit the "Stop BPL" page
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~vk5vka/stopbpl.htm
****Visit my Home Page at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~vk5vka/index.html

I think it was Springfield,Illinois a few days ago when a storm knocked
out all of the electric power in that City.Radio was still working
though.
cuhulin

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:27:45 -0600, cuhulin wrote:

look between 450Mhz-451Mhz for the station's repeater outputs. This is a
nation wide allocation and most TV stations are in here with their mobile
units

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:17:35 -0700, yea right wrote:

On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 23:27:45 -0600, cuhulin wrote:

look between 450Mhz-451Mhz for the station's repeater outputs. This is a
nation wide allocation and most TV stations are in here with their mobile
units
And 455.05-ca. 455.495

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:36:52 GMT, "Hulkster" wrote:

As a side note, how do TV stations manage to get mobile phone calls/signals
to people in the storm when it is obvious that the system would be down?

Are they using satellite phones or something???


What makes you think the system would be down?

Telstra have underground cable to the towers. The other tend to use
microwave.


"Stephen Newlyn" wrote in message
...
Approximate Schedule for relay of ABC Queensland appears to be

Australian Day Time 11650 Khz 2100 UTC onwards
Australian Night Time 6020 Khz 1000 hours UTC onwards

--
-----------------
**Save the HF (Shortwave) Radio Spectrum! Eliminate Broadband over Power
Lines!!!
**Stephen Newlyn, VK5VKA. G'day from the City of Elizabeth, South
Australia.
***Visit the "Stop BPL" page
http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~vk5vka/stopbpl.htm
****Visit my Home Page at http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~vk5vka/index.html

On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:36:52 GMT, "Hulkster" wrote:

As a side note, how do TV stations manage to get mobile phone calls/signals
to people in the storm when it is obvious that the system would be down?

Are they using satellite phones or something???


http://www.iridium.com/

"Hulkster" wrote in message
...
As a side note, how do TV stations manage to get mobile phone
calls/signals
to people in the storm when it is obvious that the system would be down?

Are they using satellite phones or something???


Could they use the audio of a satellite video up/down link on their remote
broadcast trucks?
Land-line and cell phone systems have back-up power generators and large
banks of batteries.
Calls are automatically rerouted around nodes that are out of service.