With a technician license (amateur radio) one could send emails via handy talkie and a lap top, tablet or phone without using internet on the affected end. Of course the receiving end will need wifi to connect to their mail app.
“With a technician license (amateur radio) one could send emails via handy talkie and a lap top, tablet or phone without using internet on the affected end.”
I’m pretty sure that — if all the technical requirements are in place — that would work even sans the technician license.
Exactly. And delivering “text” messages is pretty easy.
I belong to a CERT group that was formed after an early year ice storm that ravaged Western New England about ten years ago. We can set up and relay messages from the NY Border to Boston. Letting someone know you are alive and well (or hurt and need help) saves lives and reduces panic.