When all else fails, amateur (HAM) radio works

Over the last week, wildfires have been raging across most of the state of California.

On Wednesday, one of my life-long best friends named Donna, who lives about an hour south of San Francisco, Calif., and some of the fires out there, had internet but no phone service in her town of Belmont, California.

Donna posted two photos commenting: "This is the smoke in the Bay Area! Smells like a bonfire. The firestorm is about an hour away. We are fine here, but in the northern Bay Area there are 115,000 acres destroyed and fire is still raging. Praying for their safety "

Seeing that, I posted a reply expressing my happiness at finding out she and her family were alive and well. But I also wanted to offer any help I could provide, be it from my tiny town of Waldoboro, Maine, over 3,000 miles away, even without my having a currently set-up FM radio rig and antenna that could reach her.

http://www.penbaypilot.com/article/when-all-else-fails-amateur-ham-radio-works/93311

41st Annual Trigg County Ham Festival

http://www.paducahsun.com/news/local/high-on-the-hog/article_70c10c5e-902c-5842-9695-f850d935de90.html

Global efforts under way to restore dominica's

http://www.arrl.org/news/global-effort-under-way-to-restore-dominica-s-amateur-radio-capabilities

Εξετάσεις ραδιοερασιτεχνων χανια

ΣΤΙΣ 18 ΟΚΤΩΒΡΙΟΥ

Από τη Διεύθυνση Μεταφορών & Επικοινωνιών Π.Ε. Ηρακλείου ανακοινώθηκε ότι, οι εξετάσεις της B΄ περιόδου 2017 για την απόκτηση Πτυχίου Ραδιοερασιτέχνη, θα διενεργηθούν στις 18 Οκτωβρίου 2017 σε αίθουσα του κτιρίου της Υπηρεσίας. Οι ενδιαφερόμενοι πρέπει να υποβάλλουν τα σχετικά δικαιολογητικά στη Διεύθυνση Μεταφορών & Επικοινωνιών Π.Ε. Ηρακλείου μέχρι 13.10.2017 . Αρμόδιος υπάλληλος είναι η κα. Δρακάκη Σοφία, τηλ: 2813-410550

http://www.haniotika-nea.gr/exetasis-radioerasitechnon-2/

Greeneville Hamfest and Electronics Swap Meet

https://m.facebook.com/events/112421549442193/

Ham Radio Bridging the Gap in Wildfire-Stricken California

10/12/2017

UPDATED: 2017-10-12 @ 1840 UTC] More than a dozen wildfires in Northern California have damaged or destroyed cellular telephone and Internet infrastructure in some areas, and Amateur Radio has helped to fill the communication gap. Mendocino County Sheriff Thomas Allman told news media on October 10 that damage to cell towers and fiber optic telephone phone and computer lines had left officials relying on Amateur Radio operators to communicate with area hospitals.

ARRL contacted Robin Carter, a resident of the Willits area in Mendocino County, who confirmed to ARRL that ham radio operators until midweek were stationed at all North County hospitals and large nursing homes, supplementing the county’s emergency communication system. She said cell and landline telephone service was knocked out at her home, along with the fiber optic Internet connection, although the family has satellite Internet, and conventional Internet service was at least temporarily restored on Wednesday.

Her husband Mike Carter, KC6MGM, a Mendocino County Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) volunteer, had until...more in the link bellow

http://www.arrl.org/news/ham-radio-bridging-the-gap-in-wildfire-stricken-california

Radio club offers aid fir hurricane recovery

http://statenews.com/article/2017/10/radio-club-offers-aid-for-hurricane-recovery