ARLA/CLUSTER: Radioamadores do Novo México (EUA) expandem um Mega-link de acessos a pensar nas comunicações de emergencia

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Mega-link expands ham radio horizons

Portales News-Tribune reports a statewide, mega-link amateur radio
connection gained a new link last month, giving local amateur radio
new access to the southern part of Roosevelt County

According to the Greyhound Amateur Radio Club Vice President Billy
Bagwell KE5WLH, the northern part of Roosevelt County has been covered
by a link on the Eastern New Mexico University campus, but there has
been no coverage for southern Roosevelt County.

Bagwell said this change offers a much larger span of help during
emergencies. He said if power is lost or communications with
dispatchers shut down, the local amateur radio operators will be able
still to communicate through this new link.

This link, located on an 180-foot tower called Redlake on a  mesa
between Elida and Dora, is high enough up that its line of sight goes
as far as Littlefield, Texas, on one side and the Ruidoso mountains in
Lincoln County on the other.

“Short of a tornado hitting those towers directly, we have amateur
frequency communications over the entire county, part of Curry
(County), DeBaca, over to Chaves and all the way to Lincoln,” said
Bagwell.

Read the full story at
http://www.pntonline.com/2016/07/11/mega-link-expands-amateur-radio-horizons/

Greyhound Amateur Radio Club
http://org.enmu.edu/enmuarc/
https://www.facebook.com/Greyhound-Amateur-Radio-Club-334832709870158/