ARLA/CLUSTER : [ CQ_VU ] Old technology is the wave of the future

[Miguel Andrade]

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De: Luis Catulo [mailto:ct1ctz  hotmail.com]
Enviada: sábado, 9 de Setembro de 2006 23:44
Para: arvm  mail.telepac.pt
Assunto: FW: [ CQ_VU ] Old technology is the wave of the future


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>From: "didier de melo" <didierdemelo  hotmail.com>
>Subject: FW: [ CQ_VU ] Old technology is the wave of the future
>Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:43:55 +0530
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>From: "Sunil.UK" <sunil.uk  softbrands.com>
>Reply-To: CQ_VU  yahoogroups.com
>To: CQ_VU  yahoogroups.com
>Subject: [ CQ_VU ] Old technology is the wave of the future
>Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 11:18:30 +0530
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>Faced with the fact that the latest in communications technology failed,
>hospitals around the state are preparing for the next emergency by
>turning to technology that has been around for about 100 years. As part
>of a multi-tiered redundant emergency communications plan, all hospitals
>have or will purchase ham radio sets. The first group of hospital
>personnel from facilities around Acadiana received basic amateur radio
>operator's licenses Aug. 26 after a full day of training at Lafayette
>General Medical Center's Grant Mollet Center.
>
>The communications device of last resort was a natural choice, said LGMC
>ophthalmologist Dr. Richard Bourgeois, a ham radio enthusiast for the
>past 40 years. "Ham operators are the only ones during and the first
>ones up after a major calamity," he said.
>
>One of the problems faced during the recent
>hurricanes was that
>emergency personnel weren't able to talk to each other after telephones
>and cell phones went out, because each agency's radios are on different
>frequencies .........
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