Date:         Fri, 21 Apr 2000 16:06:04 -0400
Reply-To:     "Joe L." <jliasse@TOAST.NET>
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From:         "Joe L." <jliasse@TOAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: CB or cell?
Comments: To: Drew Bedford <drew@BOMB-PROOF.COM>
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   While it does not really qualify as "getting me out of a jam" a few years
ago my wife and I were passing through northern Georgia when we spotted an
unattended brush fire in the wide median likely started by some idiot
tossing a cigarette butt out the window. We called on channel 9 trying to
raise someone but got no reply. Lacking a better idea we broadcast in the
blind, "Fire in the meadian on 95 southbound mile marker XX, anyone who
hears call the police."
  Several minutes later a cop showed up. He said he got the word from a
trucker who heard me and relayed to him. Don't know if the area had cell
coverage or not but it shows that the CB CAN work.


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Drew Bedford
Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 1:43 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: CB or cell?


I'm heading off to a rather remote location for a weekend camping trip
and I began to ponder communications. In case "Happy" gets unhappy,
should I add a CB to the glovebox? I already have a national-coverage
cell phone, but rural Utah is, well... rural. Has anyone gotten out of a
jam using a CB where no cell coverage was available? Seems like fairly
cheap insurance.

TIA,
Drew
83.5 Westy