Ham Radio Operators Become Lifeline for Tsunami..

[IGBT]

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Then her brother-in-law read in the newspaper that ham radio operators had linked up all over India to provide information about missing or separated families. He went to a ham operator in Calcutta and within a day the household was smiling again. Mrs. Saha learned her husband was well and living in a camp, although his shop on Port Blair was destroyed.

In the days after the disaster, for countless families, ham radio operators became a lifeline as they helped locate hundreds of people separated from their families...

 

[Perknose]

LOL, the irony: "Ham" operators help devout Muslims!"

 

[imported_Condor]

Originally posted by: IGBT
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Then her brother-in-law read in the newspaper that ham radio operators had linked up all over India to provide information about missing or separated families. He went to a ham operator in Calcutta and within a day the household was smiling again. Mrs. Saha learned her husband was well and living in a camp, although his shop on Port Blair was destroyed.

In the days after the disaster, for countless families, ham radio operators became a lifeline as they helped locate hundreds of people separated from their families...

Ham radio operators go pretty much unrecognized these days. With the WWW, cheap LD, cell phones, satellits and email, people lose sight of the need for them. When something like this happens, they are about the only communications system that will work except satellite. SW is not as reliable as sat, but works when nothing else will. During the Mexico City quake, they were the first up. They fund everything from their own pockets and never ask anything in return. A good bunch of folks!

 

[The Stigenator]

i should renew my HAM licence.. i have one from India..

I should look into getting one here in teh US.

 

[raildogg]

humans are nothing compared to nature.

respect nature, dont destroy it

 

[raildogg]

Originally posted by: Perknose
LOL, the irony: "Ham" operators help devout Muslims!"

LOL haha

where did it say that?

btw most people in Indonesia are muslim, not India, you might be confusing the two countries

 

[Forsythe]

Originally posted by: raildogg
humans are nothing compared to nature.

respect nature, dont destroy it

Only because some idiots want a free market of regression...

 

[Perknose]

Originally posted by: raildogg

Originally posted by: Perknose
LOL, the irony: "Ham" operators help devout Muslims!"

LOL haha

where did it say that?

btw most people in Indonesia are muslim, not India, you might be confusing the two countries

I'll ignore any reality for a joke. However, you must know that even in "India" there is still a sizable Muslim minority, not to mention those predominantly Muslim parts of greater India now known as Pakistan and Bangaladesh.

What do you think is one of the main causes of present day friction between Pakistan and India? It's what Indians see as Pakistani support for armed seperatist rebels in the MOSTLY MUSLIM Indian part of Kashmir.

 

[Centinel]

Originally posted by: Forsythe

Originally posted by: raildogg
humans are nothing compared to nature.

respect nature, dont destroy it

Only because some idiots want a free market of regression...

So...what's the alternative then? I'll take a free market full of crooks anyday over a socialist system full of crooks.

 

[Forsythe]

Originally posted by: Centinel

Originally posted by: Forsythe

Originally posted by: raildogg
humans are nothing compared to nature.

respect nature, dont destroy it

Only because some idiots want a free market of regression...

So...what's the alternative then? I'll take a free market full of crooks anyday over a socialist system full of crooks.

I totally agree with you! But only for the reason that people are stupid. And i'm not talking socialist. Socialism has a free market, it's just trying to adjust it a bit so the stupid people can't be that stupid.

 

[imported_Condor]

Originally posted by: TheGoodGuy
i should renew my HAM licence.. i have one from India..

I should look into getting one here in teh US.

I'm looking at my old Kenwood TS 440S just sitting on the shelf, keyer sitting next to it. Someday!

 

[imported_Condor]

Originally posted by: raildogg
humans are nothing compared to nature.

respect nature, dont destroy it

I think nature just showed us who is boss in a big way!