Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergencies

Re:Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergen... by detaro on Sunday February 02, 2020 @09:24PM (#22220937)

Why would phone be independent of the fiber link in an isolated place?

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Re:Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergen... by loeg on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:25PM (#22221413)

GP was contracting sat-phone, from the article, to phone. The entire point of satellite phones is that they do not rely on cell towers.

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Re:Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergen... by detaro on Sunday February 02, 2020 @11:26PM (#22221416)

thanks, misread that.

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