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So... wife asked me the other day, "How much could we save by dropping the house phone?" (Like many people anymore, we both carry cell phones.)
"I dunno. It comes bundled with the internet and TV, but I'll look into it. But -- regardless, can it wait until I complete the Ham training? I'd prefer to not give up one of our two ways of communicating without having another to replace it."
I just finished CERT training, and an immediate follow-on to that is the city offering Ham license training. Five Wednesday evenings plus an exam.
I don't have any burning desire to 'pull on the green eyeshade and talk to Australia in the middle of the night' but I gather ham radios now come the size of cell phones and it only has to reach the repeater to let me get a message out when the cell and land lines are saturated or down.
MrB+
"I dunno. It comes bundled with the internet and TV, but I'll look into it. But -- regardless, can it wait until I complete the Ham training? I'd prefer to not give up one of our two ways of communicating without having another to replace it."
I just finished CERT training, and an immediate follow-on to that is the city offering Ham license training. Five Wednesday evenings plus an exam.
I don't have any burning desire to 'pull on the green eyeshade and talk to Australia in the middle of the night' but I gather ham radios now come the size of cell phones and it only has to reach the repeater to let me get a message out when the cell and land lines are saturated or down.
MrB+