From: daybrown@artelco.com   
      
   I live in the Ozarks, and we see the local ISP crash every month or so.   
   We use two different ISPs on that account. There are also regional   
   effects, hurricanes, quakes, power grid failure, and perhaps even WMD.   
      
   Someone mentioned that modems are getting rare. And packet radio was   
   mentioned too. both are pretty obsolete. But some kind of long range   
   wireless would seem to be prudent.   
      
   Spoze there is a usb wireless transmitter controller that'd work at   
   long range low frequencies? Or is there a way to take soundcard   
   input (as from a radio receiver) and turn it into data?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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