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Amateur radio operators go on air for field day
Valley Press on ^ | Friday, June 26, 2009. | RICH BREAULT
Posted on June 26, 2009 12:06:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin
[H]am radio operators will test their emergency communications capabilities with amateur radio clubs across the nation this weekend.
The field day, the culmination of National Amateur Radio Week, known as the Nationwide Emergency Communications Drill, is intended to give the public a glimpse of the services amateur radio operators provide and a chance to meet the operators themselves.
“In a disaster, when phone lines, cellphones and the Internet are all down, ham radio operators will be on the job,” said Jon Clark, president of the Antelope Valley Amateur Radio Club.
The club will set up at the north end of Lancaster City Park, with members manning radios from 11 a.m. Saturday to 11 a.m. Sunday.
In Palmdale, members of the Amateur Radio Club of the Lockheed Employees Recreational Club, will play host to a field day in front of the Lockheed Federal Credit Union on Eighth Street East, just south of the guard gate at the Lockheed facility. The field day begins at 11 a.m.
“It’s not just about showing people what the hams do, but it’s important because there’s a need for more people to be involved in amateur radio,” said Roberta Alexander, a Lockheed Employees Recreational Club board member.
The national event is sponsored by the American Radio Relay League, a national organization for amateur radio. It originated the concept of a nationwide field day.
Amateur radio operators, better known as “hams,” participate by gathering at a common meeting ground and communicating with each other without depending on outside power. They will talk with each other - across the Valley, with hams elsewhere in the state and with hams across the nation, to demonstrate forms of communicating on emergency power supply and the radios’ capabilities when a disaster occurs.
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Always a fun weekend, but unfortunately I will be too busy to participate this year. Ugh.
http://www.theweekly.com/news/2010/May/28/radio_hams.html
“’Radio Hams’ from Gwinnett County join in national deployment Public Demo of Emergency Communications June 26 27”
SNIPPET: “LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga., (May 28, 2010) - Gwinnett Countys hams will join with thousands of Amateur Radio operators who will be showing off their emergency capabilities this weekend. Over the past year, the news has been full of reports of ham radio operators providing critical communications during unexpected emergencies in towns across America including the California wildfires, winter storms, tornadoes and other events worldwide.
In the Gwinnett County area, the Gwinnett County Radio Society and Amateur Radio Emergency Service groups will be demonstrating Amateur Radio at Sweetwater Park, 800 Bethesda School Road, Lawrenceville, 30044 on June 26 and 27. They invite the public to come and see ham radios new capabilities and learn how to get their own FCC radio license before the next disaster strikes.”
http://www.andalusiastarnews.com/2010/06/23/ham-radio-field-day-set/
“Ham radio operators to test emergy responses”
Posted on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010 at 12:00 am.
By Stephanie Nelson
SNIPPET: “Amateur ham radio operators are our last line of communication in times of natural disaster.
Those wanting to know more about what they do and how they do it are invited to watch as the local South Alabama Radio Club participates in the nationwide field day this weekend.
John Brown, SARC president, said local hams will join with thousands of amateur radio operators Saturday and Sunday to show off their emergency capabilities.
The goal of the event is to contact as many states in a 24-hour period as possible an emergency exercise, Brown said. We will operate overnight from 1 p.m. Saturday to 1 p.m. on Sunday using only batteries and generators to power our radios.
Brown said hams provide critical communications during unexpected emergencies and natural disasters.”
http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/166550/
Published June 24 2010
“Ham radio operators help when all else fails”
SNIPPET: “Until I visited with Rod Klug, I was thinking ham radio was only for grandparents. Klug is one of the Grand Forks area members of the Amateur Radio Club that is holding a Field Day this weekend at the close of the annual Amateur Radio Week. He said there are more ham radio operators now than ever.”
By: Marilyn Hagerty, Grand Forks Herald
SNIPPET: “The slogan is, When all else fails, ham radio works. And the hams are able to send messages in many forms without the use of phone systems, internet or other infrastructure that can be compromised in a crisis. They figure more than 35,000 amateur radio operators will take part in the weekend event all over the country.”
EMERGENCY RADIO.org
http://www.emergency-radio.org
http://www.heraldonline.com/2010/06/26/2271174/these-hams-really-can-make-a-difference.html
Published: Saturday, Jun. 26, 2010 / Updated: Saturday, Jun. 26, 2010 12:10 AM
“These “hams” really can make a difference”
Andrew Dys Columnist
SNIPPET: “Today might be the most important day in emergency communications that most people have never heard of.
Right here in Rock Hill, at Ric Porter’s riverfront house, and in garages and basements and fields and mountaintops all around the country, amateur radio operators will gather with their knobs and dials and antennas and practice how to keep in touch with the rest of the world when there is no electricity.”
SNIPPET: “But this annual gathering is more than just a bunch of ham radio guys yukking it up on wavelengths that bounce off the ionosphere to reach Russia, China and Japan in what is like the Super Bowl of ham radio.
Hams are vital links in communications when electricity is demolished.”