In an emergency, either actual emergency services will be using all of the bands and amateurs will be well-advised to shut up, or the military (official or bandit) will be and, again, amateurs will be well-advised to not make themselves targets. Some people get the odd ideas that the Big Ones will be more like Northridge in 1994 than Cambodia in 1970.

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Dylan16807 a day ago | parent [-]

Why would emergency services fill up the amateur bands?

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msla a day ago | parent [-]

Keeping everyone else quiet to remove the possibility of interference is just good sense. The Baofeng people alone would be a huge, unnecessary distraction.

	▲	cowlevel an hour ago \| parent [-]
		It's a separate frequency band. Their equipment doesn't even support it. That's like saying when there's a plane crash, the airport has to get everyone to turn off WiFi so they can hear the planes better.