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  • Amateur radio operators go on air for field day

    06/26/2009 12:06:22 PM PDT · by BenLurkin · 100 replies · 2,514+ views
    Valley Press on ^ | Friday, June 26, 2009. | RICH BREAULT
    [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...