[Boomer]

--Remember the old days of getting that "all circuits are busy" message on your land line phones? Cell phones jam, too. My guess is in a disaster they would jam pretty quickly because everybody has one, usually at all times. There are a lot of people sharing the same radio frequencies. Hams have access to different frequencies.

And I really would not worry about big antennas and towers suddenly appearing in yards in TV. The TV hams, I am sure, had you covered during the tornado last year. There are setups in place for emergencies.

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And please do not worry if Mr. Boomer and I end up moving in next door to you. In a post above I talked about the antenna farm that he so admires when he drives past. The guy even has a ham shack. (I bet his wife makes him live in it.) You should see these antennas. He must be trying to contact ET. But we would never erect an antenna, not here, not there. Hams are resourceful types. They figure it out.

I have been wondering if the TV hams ever take their golf carts out on fox hunts.