ARLA/CLUSTER: O radioamadorismo como ponto de contacto com o Mundo

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Serving those across the globe

In the 1990's Bill Huntimer KI0CW used amateur radio to provide
thousands of phone patches a year linking US armed forces serving
overseas to their families

The Argus Leader reports Bill has spoken with people across the world
from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica to
presidential helicopters to destroyers floating in the ocean. Huntimer
said he can communicate with radios on the other side of the globe and
“patch” them with families via a phone line.

When Hurricane Katrina hit the southern coast of the United States in
2005, Huntimer said he helped men and women relay information to their
loved ones that they were safe. In a similar manner, he assisted a
ship by helping it communicate with a tug in the harbor during an
earthquake in California, so it could dock safely.

Read the full story at
http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/dell-rapids/2017/01/10/serving-across-globe/96344252/

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