In reply to doc_h:
> Recently Mountain Rescue needed to use a phone at our hut and were amazed we didn't have one
"Recently Mountain Rescue
wanted to use a phone at our hut"
It sounds to me that they were putting their hopes on there being a phone in a remote hut, and were being 'overly disappointed' when finding they could not.
Are they expecting a network of land lines to be installed at handy points across the countryside, on the off chance their radio comms suffer a blackspot?
As much as I support and admire MRT, this 'amazement' (if accurately reported) sounds like bollocks, and, if you've survived until now without a phone to the hut, you'd be wasting 8k of your members' money, and if I were a member, I'd be voting against it.