ARLA/CLUSTER: CNN entrevista radioamadores em Porto Rico que fornecem transmissões vitais à população afectada pelos furacões

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

CNN interviews Puerto Rican radio hams providing vital link

CNN reports amateur radio operators are saving Puerto Rico one transmission
at a time

The phone call from the Red Cross came in late Friday night, just as the
full scale of Hurricane Maria's calamity began taking shape.

"We need 50 of your best radio operators to go down to Puerto Rico."

In the days after the worst storm in three generations hit the American
island -- and for many more to come -- public electrical, land-line and
cellular communication systems showed few signs of life. And radio networks
used routinely by police officers, power company workers and other first
responder still were down.

Yet, a key mode of communication -- one not reliant on infrastructure
vulnerable to strong winds and flooding -- still crackled: the "ham" radio.

Answering the phone that night in Connecticut was the emergency manager for
the American Radio Relay League, the group's CEO said. For more than a
century, this group has served as a hub for amateurs licensed to operate
the dependable, if archaic, medium known as ham radio and eager to pitch in
when disaster strikes.

When the Red Cross made its latest appeal for heroes, these were the people
it had in mind.

Already gearing up on his own that night to go to work, turning knobs and
flipping switches, was *Oscar Resto KP4RF*.

As one of dozens of ham -- shorthand for "amateur" -- operators across
Puerto Rico, Resto had been authorized by the Federal Communications
Commission to use radios, computers, satellites or the Internet to assist
and support public safety during emergencies.

Watch the video and read the full story at
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/27/us/puerto-rico-maria-ham-radio-operators-trnd/index.html
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