You know that feeling when you can’t find a cell?? The very first thing to go down in a natural or Man made disaster is the cell phone. Been in emergency coms for 35 years. Even a 5 watts CW transmitter and a piece of wire in the tree at 30’ can make global communications possible. Can do that on solar power if necessary. Remember that when you bitch about your neighbors tower. de .— ...— -.-. ..-. via QRZ
Tell that to my XYL .... .. .... ..
My buddy developed telescoping cell tower service that rides on a flat bed trailer for fast deployment to disaster areas, but Hams are always first on the scene.
ROFL!!! You just reminded me about my now EX neighbor who tried everything under the sun to get the village to stop me from putting up my 50' Rohn HDBX tower and antenna's.
She lost BIG TIME and ended up moving away. Thank God.
At one point I got so sick and tired of her constant bitching about seeing my tower every time she looked out her kitchen window that I spray painted an old Satellite TV dish bright PINK, mounted it on my tower at the same level as her kitchen window and pointed it right at her.
It stayed there until she moved away in August of 2014.