[ARRL-OK] Hams help

[Mark D. Conklin N7XYO]

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Hams Helping at Out-of-State Sheltering Operations

South Texas Section Emergency Coordinator Jerry Reimer, KK5CA, reports
Amateur Radio is continuing to support sheltering operations at the
Houston Astrodome, but other shelters in Houston have closed or been
consolidated. Hams have been shadowing officials and shelter workers and
providing a communication link with the Harris County emergency operations
center (EOC). South Texas SM Ray Taylor, N5NAV, says 160 shelters are open
in his state.

In Rains County, Texas, some 60 miles east of Dallas, ARES/RACES member
T.W. Ivey, K5IJT, reported his team has been keeping in contact with the
county EOC via VHF repeater.

In Tullahoma, Tennessee, Jimmy Floyd, NQ4U, has been among a group of
operators helping to staff a communications/command center for a shelter
operation housing 170 evacuees. They've been relaying messages between the
shelter site and the Red Cross center. "We have also been active in
communicating with other shelters on HF and attempting to locate family
and friends of the evacuees," Floyd said.

Amateur Radio operators concluded a shelter support operation at
Oklahoma's Camp Gruber. "We were the communications backbone between
responding agencies," said Mark Conklin, N7XYO. "We also passed tons of
traffic, ranging from requests for water and food, supplies and bedding.
In fact, Amateur Radio was the 911 system on Camp Gruber for many days."