Storm zone update: Ham radio operators settle in to help victims - Computerworld

Storm zone update: Ham radio operators settle in to help victims - Computerworld

"Storm zone update: Ham radio operators settle in to help victims
Series Part 3: One volunteer sleeps next to his radio

News Story by Todd R. Weiss

SEPTEMBER 09, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Ham radio communications in areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina continue to improve as volunteers work around the clock to help relief organizations and state, local and federal authorities coordinate their efforts.

Dennis Motschenbacher, the sales and marketing manager at the American Radio Relay League Inc. (ARRL), who has been at an American Red Cross rescue staging area in Montgomery, Ala., since Tuesday night, remains in Montgomery, where he is organizing donations of radio equipment from manufacturers. "

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.