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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (57374)	8/26/2014 5:24:41 PM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

I was explaining the advantage of a cellphone warning for tsunamis, not for earthquakes that happen nearby. If an earthquake happens where you are, you won't need a radio to figure out that there's a problem. The shaking ground will communicate directly with your brain. Masonry falling on your head will act as a back-up warning that things are not going well. Tsunamis happen far away and the earthquake is not felt unless it was close. If the earthquake is felt so strongly that the cellphone systems stop working, then that's a pretty good indication that there is a very close tsunami and that fleeing to high ground would be a good idea if there is oceanic water nearby and not many metres lower. If it's a bolide splashdown, there won't be any earthquake. Just depends where you are when it happens. On the Oregon coastline there is a very good system in place to tell people where to go. No cellphones required. Out there and along the Washington coast when the next "big one" (last one in January of 1700) happens there will be less than 20 minutes to get to high ground. That's nice that you had a handy device in your pocket which keeps working no matter what. <My communications system never went down. > My companies Qualcomm and Globalstar provided such a system which kept on working in New Orleans during and after the Katrina disaster. People can now use their swanky Cyberphones with a wifi modem link to Globalstar. You are right, it is very nifty. Better than your system. Oh my system doesn't rely on satellites.. Just the good, old reliable way of communicating... bouncing signals off the Ionosphere on HF SSB. Then VHF or UHF FM close in. Very, very reliable. Centralized communication systems just can't provide the reliability. My friend Jeanne who sailed around the world, by herself, nonstop last year had two sat phones die 3 and 5 months into the trip.. So much for reliability! svnereida.com I talked to here virtually every day for about an hour at a time while at my home QTH. Ultra reliable communications without satellites.. Or infrastructure. Most communications were on 40 meters and some on 20 meters while she was crossing the Pacific. No "per minute" costs.. Eric