[Elecraft] Re: OT: Affected areas/ net frequencies

[Leigh L Klotz, Jr.]

Yesterday I was tryung to track down info about Mississippi where my 
father N5LK and other unlicensed relatives live, and heard on the SATERN 
net on 14.265 that the Red Cross, which is not handling H&W traffic yet, 
had not stationed hams at the shelters, as RC policy was to use cell 
phones where they were working.

They sais that unfortunately, the cell phone towers in Hattiesburg that 
were standing were saturated, so the only way to contact the RC was when 
they were en route between Jackson and Hattiesburg, so Salvation Army 
hams were contacting the RC people in route to Hattiesburg to try to get 
them to let them get some hams in the Hattiesburg shelter to handle 
SATERN H&W traffic.

As near as I can tell, even SATERN has no CW net, but I hope people are 
monitoring CW for traffic if any.

My father got a 20m dipole back up and is working CW on his K1 on 
14.060+/-.  I am logging his contacts at http://n5lk.blogspot.com until 
he gets power and network service back.  (He can now phone out.)  I sent 
him a 750ma solar panel to help replenish the battery.

Leigh / WA5ZNU