[Troop139] Article on the start of Emergency Communications

[J. Gordon Beattie, Jr., W2TTT]

Hi Folks!

 

Today is the 48th anniversary of the death of Herbert Akerberg 

 

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr
<http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmcid=47840598&GRid=92808
720.> &GSmcid=47840598&GRid=92808720. 

 

Many believe he was the first to use Amateur Radio in Em-Comm. He is the
first according to news reports from 1913. 

It is a great piece on Amateur Radio History that needs to be remembered.
You can find the article at:

 

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/11/06/hilltop-teen-was-fi
rst-to-transmit-from-home-radio-during-disaster.html

 

 

The irony is that the relief request message sent 99 years ago included all
the same things people need now.

Some things never change!

 

Thanks & 73,

Gordon Beattie, W2TTT

201.314.6964