All righty then, Kevin! Your local net made a wonderful, valid point, indeeedy!

33, 73, 88 where appropriate,
Reeva Parry,
AMATEUR RADIO CALL SIGN:  K8DMU!


         At 07:56 PM 7/25/05 -0400, Kevin Kwan, VA3KKY, wrote:

>An excellent point that was brought up on a local net here in Toronto was
>that you may have the luxury of all this digital, and satellite
>communications, That's good and yes we're in the new millennium so we're
>moving ahead in giant leaps. What happens to all of this though in a power
>failure? Well computers won't work, you can't get a signal on the cell
>phone, some land line service can sometimes be compromised, you might have a
>working phone, but the switching system in your city might not function,
>especially if your area still uses the old electronic switching system (ess)
>and god be with you if you're in a remote area still using the old cross bar
>network. Now when nothing else gets threw, the cw is always reliable. You
>can run a battery with a simple transmitter and that's quite enough to get
>threw. In ham radio it's all about communications, so we shouldn't turn a
>blind eye on the old school ways. As out dated as you might think.


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