[sdiy] Radfio Shack

[jays at aracnet.com]

Last time I worked at Intel (Hawthorn Farms, Hillsboro, OR) about 8 years ago they maintained an on-site ham station. One of the employees official duties was to keep it going. The purpose being that if every there was a disaster that they could communicate with the other plants.

Jay S.

TIm Daugard <daugard at sprintmail.com> wrote :
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> 
> Back completely on topic. The point is exactly the same that Nicolai made
> earlier. "How do you encourage kids to do electronics?" Internet and
> Cell-phones
> have just about killed off ham radio. One of the emergency centers in one of
> the
> counties (name withheld to protect the guilty) affected by hurricane Ivan
> could
> not communicate for two days. Imagine, they lost the dedicated line between
> the
> management center and the computer systems at the sheriffs office.  They
> lost
> their Cell phone service. Their solution - when interviewed after - we may
> have
> to change cell phone providers!
> 

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