Storm zone update: Ham operator reaches Red Cross staging area - Computerworld

Storm zone update: Ham operator reaches Red Cross staging area - Computerworld

"Storm zone update: Ham operator reaches Red Cross staging area
Series part 2: Volunteer radio op coordinates equipment donations

News Story by Todd R. Weiss

SEPTEMBER 08, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - As he prepares to drive later today into a Hurricane Katrina-ravaged community in Mississippi or Louisiana with his ham radio equipment to help re-establish reliable communications, Dennis Motschenbacher has already been hard at work helping victims of the massive storm. "

Since arriving Tuesday night at the staging area set up by the American Red Cross in Montgomery, Ala. (see "Ham radio operator heads south to aid post-Katrina communications"), Motschenbacher has been busy arranging donations of ham radio gear from manufacturers around the world so more radio operators can come to the aid of storm victims.

"We're continuing to make progress with the American Red Cross," Motschenbacher, who is sales and marketing manager at the American Radio Relay League Inc. (ARRL) ham radio organization, said today in a cellphone interview. The Red Cross Disaster Recovery Headquarters (DRHQ) operation was set up last week in Montgomery on the grounds of a vacant Kmart.


73 fer nw,
Bob N5IET

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there in the first place is out front of it all.