Subj : Re: Wannabe HAM
To   : Jimmy Anderson
From : Holger Granholm
Date : Wed Sep 21 2016 09:28 am

In a message on Wednesday 09-20-16 Jimmy Anderson said to Holger
Granholm:

Good morning Jimmy,

 HG> If the cell net goes down, so does the ISP's. In a disaster, usually
 HG> all providers, be they cell- or inter-net, go down.

JA> Okay - let me back up a step...

OK first, please tell me what you put into the expression "HAM" that you
use so frequently.

To us radio amateurs, that 'shorthand' just means 'a radio amateur',
not any network or relay or something else.

JA> We live near a major fault line. I have people around me that don't
JA> use HAM and have family far off. If a disaster hit and they needed
JA> to get communication to their family in Chicago, they wouldn't be
JA> able to.

'Use HAM', what is that??

JA> With Winlink linked via radio, an email could leave my laptop, go
JA> through the HAM, through the radio network to a place that DOES have
JA> Internet service, then be delivered to their family in Chicago.

How could you send an e-mail if the cell- and internet providers are
down.

And again, what does 'through the HAM' mean?

JA> Again, in theory. :-)

Yes theory is nice, but it doesn't always work.


Have a nice day,

Holger

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