Nice page you have DocRock.
73’s NU4J
That’s been proven true by the California blackouts. Cell phone towers went down from lack of power. One acquaintance of ours called my dad in tears. Solar panels in 95% of cases are wired straight to the grid to maximize green energy rebates and minimize cost ... so you can’t recharge your cell phone unless you had additional portable solar panels, either.
Ham radio operators with generators were fine.