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Communicating During Civil War Can Be Tricky…

Posted February 16, 2011 7:51 AM

Low-tech electronic gadgets has enabled Egyptians to communicate with the outside world even when their government attempted to block communications. How would you get the message out if you had to choose between using a dial-up modem, a landline or an old-school satellite phone? Can ordinary mobile phones be converted to make and receive calls without the need for phone towers or satellites? How does satellite smartphones' performance compare to consumer-geared smartphones?

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02/16/2011 10:44 PM

None of the above. HF goes a long ways after sun down.

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02/16/2011 11:14 PM

And CW always get through!

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02/17/2011 1:33 AM

Oh.... when I read "Civil War", I thought you meant The War of Northern Aggression

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02/17/2011 6:46 AM

I didn't even think that CW might be confused with "Civil War"!

Maybe I should have said Morse Code. Yeah, I just use my backup power supplies and the Ham radios.

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02/17/2011 2:14 AM

I don`t really know about phones and all that other gadget stuff. I just turn on my ham radio and start talking.

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02/17/2011 1:08 PM

Same here, I turn on my ham radio, easy!

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02/17/2011 2:00 PM

I guess I should also have mentioned that a few of my radios have a phone patch on them. I have never used them, but it my understanding that I could contact a phone operator for a long distance call. I would have to read up on it, and find what frequency to use, but I know people call on a phone, while the receiving party is on somebodys ham radio via a telephone operator. This happened quite regulary during times of war with soldiers calling home. On the hit show MASH, they did this quite often when RADAR would put in a call back home. Just thought I would mention it, maybe someone else knows more than I do about it. 73`s

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02/17/2011 6:36 PM

The phone patch connects directly to the phone line, so the radio needs to be in an area that still has phone (land-line) available. Then the radio operator basically acts as the go between to get someone on another radio connected via his radio to the land-line.

The person "making the call" does not need to be a licensed radio operator but both radios need the licensed station operator present to initiate the connections. The other requirement is that the person talking on the radio connection must say "over" at the end of a message since this is not a full duplex connection.

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03/17/2011 1:51 AM

Civil wars could be avoided if UN is careful. Now UN allows any country to get troops from another country to kill some of their countrymen. UN should send its troops if they notice problem in any member state

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03/21/2011 10:31 PM

Well the problem about UN troops is that they are not allowed to fire, unless fired upon, for self-defense purposes only.

Yes, countries inviting their allied troops to help them in a battle can be an extremely dangerous thing because it their allies also have other allies. You can easily end up with a world war when other countries get involved with others' conflicts.

Oh and another way to communicate during battle could be, although extremely unreliable, letter runners. Only bullets can intercept them. Just hope they are the state champions before you put your trust in their athletic abilities.

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