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The Connecticut Post Online - News

"Ham Radio to Rescue
System works well after hurricanes hit
KRISTINA SHTEREVA, Staff writer

A ham radio inside the Stratford Amateur Radio Club headquarters. (John Galayda/Connecticut Post)

Taking a beer-can shower after three days in the sweltering heat and humidity in Gulfport, Miss., is one of those hard-to-forget things for Oscar Fuller.

The 62-year-old ham radio operator from Danbury said pouring a can filled with water over his head to cool off and clean up was just one facet of volunteering for the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
'I guess I like to believe that if anything like that [a major hurricane] happened in Connecticut there would be a guy down there who would do the same for us,' he said, after his recent return home.
In the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, amateur 'ham' radio emerged once again as a reliable way to stay in touch when other modes of communication have failed."

73 fer nw,
Bob N5IET

(old calls KE5CTY - WB5ZQU - WY5L)
10X# 37210, FP#-1141, SMIRK#-5177
http://www.qsl.net/ke5cty/
Code may be taking a back seat for now,
but the pioneering spirit that put the code
there in the first place is out front of it all.