Kenwood Group donates wireless gear to Katrina clean-up

Radio World on-line reports that the Kenwood Group has pledged to provide roughly $90,000 worth of wireless public safety mobile radios. This, to support and assist in the reconstruction of the gulf coast areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Such equipment does not rely on commercial power utilities and the receiver company hopes the donation will help to maintain and recover some parts of the destroyed communications in the area.

The donations will head to the American Red Cross, state emergency managers, county emergency managers, city emergency managers for the state of Louisiana as well as Tennessee, and shelters in Tennessee.

On the ham radio side, numerous companies have donated gear and other support to the hurricane communications effort. This list is quite long and includes Heil Sound, Icom, Kenwood, M-F-J and Yaesu to mention only a few.

(RW-Online, others)

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