[PPRAANet] Ham radio operators are saving Puerto Rico one transmission at a time

[John Bloodgood]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/27/us/puerto-rico-maria-ham-radio-operators-trnd/index.html


(CNN) — The phone call from the Red Cross came in late Friday night, just as the full scale of Hurricane Maria's calamity began taking shape.

"We need 50 of your best radio operators to go down to Puerto Rico."

In the days after the worst storm in three generations hit the American island -- and for many more to come -- public electrical, land-line and cellular communication systems showed few signs of life. And radio networks used routinely by police officers, power  company workers and other first responder still were down.




 John Bloodgood, KD0SFY
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