[ARRL-OK] PR 101

[Mark D. Conklin N7XYO]

Greetings,

Do you know your local media contacts? Do you have a list of their phone
numbers, fax numbers, or e-mail addresses?  There is a great source of this
information here in Oklahoma. It's the Oklahoma Media Guide. The guide is
published by the Oklahoma Press Service, Inc.. You may order the guide for
$25 by calling 1-888-815-2672, it's great tool every PIO or club public
relations chairman should have.

E-mail is a great way to keep in touch with the media. Anytime amateur radio
responds to an emergency (in Oklahoma or around the country), I have made it
a practice to pass in the information to the media via e-mail. I will cut
and paste notices sent from the ARRL and groups such as the SATERN or the
Hurricane Watch Net, them add my contact info to the e-mail. This keeps
amateur radio in the mind of the media and you just never know when they may
decide to do a story.

One such story resulted from an e-mail sent out when the Hurricane Watch Net
activated for Hurricane Isabel. The website link below will take you to a
windows media file of the KTUL TV8 (Tulsa ABC) news report that aired on the
10 p.m. news on 9/18/03.

http://www.oknews.cc/ovs/video/Ham%20Radio%20Storm%20Reports.wmv.WMV

You can also see the link on tulsahamradio.org

Feel free to share this with others, or download it for your clubs website.

Want more information about the ARRL PIO program? Contact me or see
http://www.remote.arrl.org/pio/

73's
Mark Conklin, N7XYO
Public Information Coordinator,
ARRL Oklahoma Section
(918) 366-2007 Eve.
(918) 622-6262 Ext. 25 Day
(918) 232-8346 Mobile
1-888-597-1492 Pager
n7xyo@arrl.net e-mail