[BC] New Orleans - a matter of responsibility?

[Douglas B. Pritchett]

Mike, that's a good point, but also remember that the cell cites are 
interconnected. While my company, Centennial Wireless, does not serve 
the New Orleana area, we do serve areas to the north and west of NO. 
Many of our cites went off line  not necessarly due to power, but 
because the Sprint LD switch in NO was destroyed. Our tech's used 
portable genny's to get the AC flowing and point to point microwave to 
get the cells connected to our network again. Then Rita came right 
through out Beaumont/Port Arthur markets. Don't know how many gennys we 
sent down there.

-- 
Douglas B. Pritchett
Fort Wayne, IN
dpritchett1 at comcast.net




Mike McCarthy wrote:

> Because while many cell sites were down, more distant/inland ones may 
> not have been.  Depending on location and the height of the cell 
> tower, it is entirely possible to receive signal some miles beyond 
> it's normal coverage.  Even more so if the caller is on a 2nd floor or 
> higher.
>
> MM
>
> At 02:29 PM 12/2/2005 -0500, Rich Wood wrote
>
>> ------ At 01:17 PM 12/2/2005, davidgarland wrote: -------
>>
>>> The stations in New Orleans quickly pooled resourses and formed
>>> "United Broadcasters of New Orleans."  I monitored WWL as much as
>>> I could for the next several weeks and was very impressed with the
>>> professionalism demonstrated.  They had many thousands of listeners
>>> on the air describing what was going on in their neighborhoods.
>>
>>
>> Hmm. I was told the phones were out - land and cell. Where did all 
>> these calls come from? It's strange that the media said people 
>> couldn't call for help, yet they could reach a radio station 
>> originating in Baton Rouge.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
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