[SFDXA] Queens School’s Amateur Radio Club

[WILLIAM MARX]

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Queens School's Amateur Radio Club Offers Messaging Lifeline to Puerto Rico

  
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     On Thursday, October 5, 2017 10:06 AM, WILLIAM MARX <bmarx at bellsouth.net> wrote:
 

 
| Queens School’s Amateur Radio Club Offers Messaging Lifeline to Puerto Rico – Jackson Heights – New York – DNAinfo |
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The station — known by its call sign, K2GSG — is taking messages known as “radiograms” to send down to hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, which has been mostly without power since Hurricane Maria struck the island.
Source: Queens School’s Amateur Radio Club Offers Messaging Lifeline to Puerto Rico – Jackson Heights – New York – DNAinfoI find this cool on a couple of levels: one, they’re helping Puerto Rico in a very important and tangible way, and second, they’re learning about amateur radio and how it can be a lifeline in an emergency. |