[BCVHFA] Ham Radio Featured in Katrina Documentary

[Tom Isgro]

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Subject:  Ham radio featured in Katrina documentary  
Date:  Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:55:12 -0400 (EDT) 


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From: Fred Stone <fstone at thinktv.org>
Subject: [mvarbb] Ham radio featured in Katrina documentary 2000L Sun 23 Aug	
06

Katrina documentary to air (Aug 23, 2006) -- The documentary 
"Postmark: Katrina" will air on The Weather Channel 
<http://www.weather.com/> Sunday and Monday, August 27 and 28, at 8 
PM Eastern and Pacific Time as part of the cable network's Storm 
Stories series. The hour long program, produced by ARRL Member Les 
Rayburn, N1LF, focuses on the restoration of mail service to the US 
Gulf Coast in the wake of the  devastating storm and mentions Amateur 
Radio's role in the storm response and recovery effort. Rayburn and 
his crew were embedded for six weeks with US Postal Inspection 
Service officers within hours of Katrina's landfall. "In our 
documentary, there is some brief Amateur Radio voice traffic 
depicted, along with a graphic explaining how repeaters work, and 
even some Morse code," Rayburn told ARRL. "Our missions took us to 
Waveland, Biloxi, New Orleans, Bay St Louis and on to Houston. When 
not on duty filming, I also conducted mobile HF missions for the 
National Communications System SHARES program, keeping in contact 
with their watch desk on 20 meters."

In addition to the August 27-28 airings, Rayburn expects the program 
to air at other times in the coming weeks. "We were proud to tell the 
story of how the US Postal Service worked tirelessly to restore mail 
to the affected area, and also to aid in the recovery using our 
amateur HF station," he says.

Link <http://www.arrl.org/?artid=6706>  to this story

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Tom Isgro
Hamilton, OH