[OZAPRS] Other uses for Packet (was Re: Melbourne APRS Digipeater Status)

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I was without land line and adsl and power for 9 days, and the cellular network was close to shut down, and I was in Townsville.
Fortunately I had HF mobiles on Radtel ready to go.

On 25/03/2011, at 8:52 PM, Howard Small wrote:

> We were without phone, cellular, adsl for over 24 hours after yasi and we were on it's fringe so I hate to think how long we would have been without it if we had been hit hard. That is the reason we are currently looking at a solution.
> 
> Howard
> VK4BS
> 
> On 25/03/2011 8:29 PM, Richard Murnane wrote:
>> If the phone system got really buggered, radio might be the only means left, though these days you'd have to be talking some truly serious damage to get to that stage.
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