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Utah hams co-ordinate rescueAmateur Radio once again proved its worth when a truck crash happened in Utah. In areas where cell phone signals just won't work, Amateur Radio gets through. That's what Brent Yeates, KA7FAP, of North Logan, Utah, found out just before noon on Wednesday, December 2, when he came across a dairy truck that had crashed and rolled over in the Logan River as he drove on Route 89 through Logan Canyon. As 38,000 gallons of dairy products were spilling into the Logan River, Yeates waded through the cold river to help get the driver out of the truck's cab and then put out a call on his handheld transceiver. Another ham, Brent Carruth, AD7VF, of Logan, was monitoring the repeater and heard Yeates make the call. Carruth listened as Yeates give a first-hand account of the condition of the driver and the seriousness of the crash and then called 911. Read the full ARRL story at The Herald Journal story, Ham radio fills cell phone signal gap in canyon crash, is at
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