Re: Back from Haliburton /Tornados
Ken Weir (weir@SCIEX.COM)
Tue, 25 Jul 1995 07:53:36 -0400
>Subject: Tornado in Camp
>Subject: Cellular Phones.
Gary,
Your incident with the tornado was unfortunate. Most of Southern Ontario
lives in the thresat of these destructive storms every year but seldom do
have the number of them that we have in the last few years.
As for your recommendations on cellular phones. The reliability of the
phone would be very suspect in the Haliburton region where you were. The
edge of the Canadian Shield causes radio communications to become extremely
unreliable.
Much of this is due to the high iron content in the rock formations, and
considering that MOST cellular phones are only 3 watt transmitters you may
have had better luck with a FM 40 channel walkie-talkie to either the base
camp, or to the OPP (provencial police) in the area (channel 9).
For most of us who don't travel deeply into the northern regions, a
cellular phone is not just a viable, but a neccessary piece of emergency
equipment. My wife is a Brownie leader, and at their 4-day camp (cabins)
the pay phone had been removed due to (lack-of-use). My cellular was the
fastest, and most readily accessable communication device they had.
YiS
Ken Weir
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