[Elecraft] FWD: ham radio comes through in New Orleans

[wayne burdick]

 From the QRP-L reflector.

Wayne
N6KR

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Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 07:44:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: "KT0NY at arrl.net" <kt0ny at arrl.net>
Subject: Re: [QRP-L] OT: Washington Post article mentions hams helping  
in disaster
To: qrp-l at mailman.qth.net


--- Leon Heller <leon.heller at bulldoghome.com> wrote:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/31/ 
AR2005083102656.html
>

And here is the relevant excerpt from the Washington Post story:

On Monday morning, Sybil Hayes of Broken Arrow, Okla., got word by cell
phone from relatives in New Orleans who said they were trapped in the
second floor of their home, with the first floor filled with water.
Their cell phone then died.

Hayes called the Red Cross in Tulsa, which put ham operator Ben Joplin
to work. Joplin, part of a community of ham radio operators who
mobilize during emergencies, was unable to reach any ham operators in
the New Orleans area.

But he spoke to a fellow ham in Portland, Ore., who found another
operator in Utah who was finally able to reach operators in Louisiana.
The radio operators in Louisiana got word to emergency personnel, who
rescued more than a dozen people in the house, including Hayes's
81-year-old aunt.

I was just so relieved," Hayes said.


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