Ham radio: Last means of communications in a disaster
KVAL TV News reports that volunteer ham radio operators are the last line of defense for the county’s communication network.
“Highways were down, fiber was down inbetween,” said amateur ham radio operator Thomas Germaine N7NFS on Sunday, “so there was not communication; but there were amateur radio operators.”
And Germaine said if cell towers, land lines and the Internet went down during a disaster, all that we’d have left to get the word out would be ham radios.
Watch the KVAL TV video at
http://www.kval.com/news/local/Ham-radio-no-wires-in-between-
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