[TNham] amateur radios in hospitals

[bfarnham]

Is that Tazewell? I just talked to the chaplain/ham up there who tested that 
radio out.

The grants actually were from HRSA, which is tied to DHS but it isn't direct 
DHS money from Washington per se. Many hospitals in East TN already have the 
radios installed and have had numerous nets to test the systems out. METERS is 
coordinating many in Knoxville area. We have one in Roane County's hopsital. 
ALso where I work at UT Hospital. It's pretty widespread by now.

HRSA money is drying up, so if the hospital hasn't yet plugged into that 
source it is nearly too late, if not already too late. They got a D700 AND a 
706? The person I talked to was on a 706. Didn't mention the D700. If they got 
both, they got funding from another source as wel, as HRSA wouldn't give grant 
to pay for 2 radios to be put in as base stations, even if one was only VHF or 
VHF/UHF.

Hope this helps.

73,
BIll Farnham
KI4FZT
EC Roane County

>===== Original Message From ed yeary <w4tey at bellsouth.net> =====
>Does anyone know about hospitals in Tenn. getting amateur radio stations 
through Homeland Security? Claiborne Co. just got an IC-706 MKIIG and a 
Kenwood D700.
>Ed Yeary W4TEY
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