[TangoLimaSierra]

With an amateur radio callsign, you can download and use the EchoLink app for tablets and smart phones: http://www.echolink.org/. This app gives you access, over the Internet, to hundreds of repeaters across the world. You can use them to talk to HAM radio operators in other states or countries, even on other continents.

HAMs can also send email by satellite even if the internet is down. Slow and clunky, but if there's no other comms it might keep you in touch with your peeps if you plan ahead.

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[Melian]

Re HAMs can also send email by satellite even if the internet is down. Slow and clunky, but if there’s no other comms it might keep you in touch with your peeps if you plan ahead.:

Well. Wonders never cease! Geeks truly do rule the world. Most of the other people just don’t know it.