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Ham radio link to Santa

Patients at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital in Tampa were able to talk to
Santa Claus in the North Pole over amateur radio

Patients at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital in Tampa had a direct link
from their hospital room to Mr. and Mrs. Claus in the North Pole on
Thursday, Dec. 14, 2017, thanks to Santa's helpers from the Bay Area
Emergency Amateur Radio Service (BEARS) and the hospital's Child Life team.

Three-year-old Leah Torres wasn't sure how to react to the sound of Santa's
voice crackling through the hand-held radio, but her shy smile turned into
loud giggles when she heard him say her name and that he knew she wanted a
mermaid for Christmas.

Eight-year-old Mylah Dixson gasped in delight when Santa asked if Sylah,
her favorite doll, was there with her. "Wow, he knows! He knows everything!
He even knows my baby doll's name that I carry everywhere," said Mylah.

For the past nine years, volunteers with BEARS along with St. Joseph's
Hospitals Facility Technician and BEARS Coordinator Christopher Perry
KJ4JHT have turned their amateur radio station housed in the hospital's
emergency communications center into the "Santa Net Control Center." When
not being used to connect patients to the North Pole, BEARS operates as a
community based emergency response station under the call sign W4TCH.

"You just can't help but smile when you hear the pure joy these kids have
in talking to Santa," said Perry. "They're usually surprised that he's
thinking of them while they're in the hospital and reassured that he knows
where to leave their presents on Christmas Eve."

Read the full story at
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/patients-at-st-josephs-childrens-hospital-in-tampa-talk-to-santa-claus-in-north-pole-over-amateur-radio-300572221.html
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