Re: Brief blurb in Fox News on ham emergency comms for New orleans


Bob wrote:
> Saw this morning a brief mention on Fox News about hams doing health
> and welfare emergency traffic for New Orleans. "Only reliable
> communications in the area". They showed a few ham transcievers, one
> displaying a 70cm band frequency, another HF rig on 20 meters in the
> phone subband.
>
> This is the sort of disaster that ham radio handles well. Cell phones
> are mostly out, as well as most any other comm system that needs
> physical infrastructure to function.

indeed this the sort of thing that the ARS does well

I notice no mention of CW simply in passing

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