"JJ" wrote

| | | And that is why the military and other emergency officials do
not
| | | include cell phones in their emergency planning , but they do

|
| Where did I say MARS was amateur radio? I did not even mention MARS.
| These were phone patches made on the amateur bands by Naval personnel
| who held amateur radio licenses.
|

Been there, done that. It's just amateurs passing third party morale
traffic to other amateurs and has nothing whatever to do with "emergency
planning".

73, de Hans, K0HB