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Paul Harvey plugs ham radio's emergency communications role
AMSAT News Service Bulletin 082.03 From AMSAT HQ
SILVER SPRING, MD. March 23, 2003
To All RADIO AMATEURS
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Veteran ABC Radio Networks commentator Paul Harvey on March 19 offered some
kind words for Amateur Radio. The mention was the second item on "page four"
of his Paul Harvey Noon News and Comment program: "America's quiet warriors
are the legion of ham radio operators, 700,000 of them, who are always at
ready for backup duty in emergencies--amateur, unpaid, uncelebrated,
civilian radio operators, during and after floods and fires and tornadoes.
After the 9/11 attacks, hams were indispensable in reuniting friends and
families. Most recently it was they who expedited the search for debris
after the disaster to the space shuttle Columbia, and right now, at this
moment, they are involved in homeland security to a greater degree than you
would want me to make public." The commentary's enigmatic and mysterious
final sentence --typical of Harvey's habit of leaving his listeners
hanging--apparently refers to the fact that many Amateur Radio Emergency
Service (ARES) and Radio Amateur Emergency Service
(RACES) teams have ramped up their alert status as hostilities get
[ANS thanks ARRL for the above information.]
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