[BC] HD Kills

[Glen Kippel]

On 4/27/07, Cowboy <curt at spam-o-matic.net> wrote:
>
> On Friday 27 April 2007 07:30 pm, Ron Cole wrote:
> > Mike Erickson wrote:
> > > Just click.  Leonard.... come back....
> > >
> > > http://www.wrathofkahn.org/
> > >
> > This man has lost his mind....
>
> It is better to remain silent, and thought a fool,
> than to open ones mouth, and remove all doubt.
>
> ------------


Well, Kahn may be a bit ascerbic, but he has a point.  If the cell system or
landline is overloaded, nobody can get any information,  A few years ago,
our valley was rattled by a huge "boom."  Several minutes later, another.
Was it an explosion?  Cannon fire?  My wife picked up the phone to call the
police, or somebody.  Silence.  No dial tone, nothing.  Everyone else must
have picked up their phone about then.  She turned on a radio.  I grabbed my
2-meter HT.  It was the hams, actually, that had the info first.  It was
some jet-jockey out of Edwards AFB that decided to go supersonic, thus the
sonic boom.  But, any form of non-broadcast communication was totally
inoperative.  It was broadcasting (including ham radio) that worked, because
there is no limit on the amouunt of receivers.  Now, that doesn't mean that
the radio stations don't have automated music and nobody there, or that the
hams aren't all in bed asleep.  But from a technological standpoint, it's
radio that works when the chips are down.