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Authored by: squib on Sunday, November 18 2012 @ 03:04 PM EST |
Anonymous stated:Dropping the technical requirements and
Morse code
testing and substituting purchased certified equipment instead might
help.
A really 'useful' rx/tx emergency com-set doesn’t have just a
rubber duck. One needs to get the signal out – and during a real humdinger of a
storm, that aerial array (which is needed to spread the word), may end up
looking like a bit of avant-garde bend-up aluminium sculpture. Most 'certified
equipment' that people buy (like iPhones, CB radios) -is useless for emergency
purposes, especially when the wind blows very strongly from the east - as
Hurricane Sandy just demonstrated. And just say for augments sake, lets assume
that people have been able to pop down to Wal-Mart and bought their 'certified
equipment' what useful purpose are they going to be able to serve? “ this is
rubber duck -do we have a convoy? _ What! No gasoline? That's not in the
Hollywood script! We heroes all ways have gasoline even when no one else has!”
Orr! In that case you'd just better dial 911. What ? You got no phone signal
either! Gee,... guess then we'd better just sit here, until we get rescued by
them folk's that know what their do'in.
In the UK we have something
called Raynet.
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