ARLA/CLUSTER: Reportagem da Fox TV sobre os radioamadores voluntários da ARRL enviados para auxiliar em Porto Rico

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Ham radio organization sending help to Puerto Rico

Fox TV reports the National Association for Amateur Radio, headquartered in
Newington, is sending gear and volunteers to Puerto Rico

The organization, which has roughly 750,000 licensees, put out a call for
volunteers to go to the island and transmit essential communication.

"The island is still kind of cut off," said *Mike Corey KI1U*, Emergency
Preparedness Manager with the ARRL. "San Juan is starting to come back
online. There's still a lot of the island that is without communications,
and this will go a long way to help bridge some of those gaps."

The country remains largely without power, cell phone service or Internet.
Ham radio, however, does not use cellular technology to operate, and can be
powered by generators, batteries or solar power. "You can, within an hour,
have a full-operating amateur radio station and communicate with the world
on very little power," said *Valerie Hotzfeld NV9L*, a ham radio operator
who is heading to Puerto Rico to volunteer.

At the organization's national headquarters, volunteers packed up radio
kits in storm-proof cases, which will ship out Tuesday night. Volunteers
will use the radio kits to transmit data between shelters in Puerto Rico,
as well as send data to the Red Cross's 'Safe and Well' database.

Watch the video and read the full story at
http://fox61.com/2017/09/26/newington-based-ham-radio-organization-sending-help-to-puerto-rico/

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