-=> Holger Granholm wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-   
      
    HG> If the cell net goes down, so does the ISP's. In a disaster, usually   
    HG> all providers, be they cell- or inter-net, go down.   
      
   Okay - let me back up a step...   
      
   We live near a major fault line. I have people around me that don't use   
   HAM and have family far off. If a disaster hit and they needed to get   
   communication to their family in Chicago, they wouldn't be able to.   
      
   I, as a HAM, could theoretically get a message out, but it would be   
   verbal and passed through others. With Winlink linked via radio,    
   an email could leave my laptop, go through the HAM, through the radio   
   network to a place that DOES have Internet service, then be delivered   
   to their family in Chicago.   
      
   Again, in theory. :-)   
      
      
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