Re: ARLA/CLUSTER: Radioamadores voltam à tecnologia analógica para se comunicarem durante uma pandemia

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João Costa > CT1FBF <ct1fbf  gmail.com> escreveu no dia sexta, 10/04/2020
à (s) 06:31:

> Amateur radio operators turn to analog tech to communicate during pandemic
> While millions of isolated people around the world discover new digital
> ways of staying in touch, some are going back to the analog basics
>
>    - Apr 09, 2020
>    -
>    - Kelvin Gawley <https://www.citynews1130.com/author/kelvin-gawley/>
>
> [image: AddThis Website Tools]
> Amateur radio operator Paul Judd poses with his home station in Maple
> Rige. (Photo courtesy Paul Judd)
>
> MAPLE RIDGE (NEWS 1130) – While millions of isolated people around the
> world discover new digital ways of staying in touch, some are going back to
> the analog basics.
>
> Paul Judd of Maple Ridge is part of a small but passionate community of
> amateur radio operators.
>
> “It’s one of the most elemental ways of communicating between two persons
> or two stations or two places without having the huge infrastructure� of
> other forms of communication, he says.
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> Judd, whose call sign is VA7XQ, fires up his home station daily to check
> in with fellow ham radio users around the region and, sometimes, around the
> world.
>
> The check-ins with different networks – or nets, as they’re known – allow
> operators to ensure their gear is working properly, but they also allow for
> more casual conversation.
>
> “There’s an informal part where you can chew the fat and catch up with a
> friend,� Judd says.
>
> Typically, operators ask after each others’ families and health. Lately,
> Judd says, the conversations have been turning to how everyone is coping
> with the new reality of physical distancing during the pandemic.
>
> But the ham radio crowd is probably better suited for isolation than most,
> he says.
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> “We tend to want to sit in a room with radio equipment and talk to people
> who are in isolated locations to begin with,� he says. “It sort of comes
> natural to a ham radio operator to be isolated.�
>
> As more and more people turn to social media, video conferencing and cell
> phones to communicate during the COVID-19 pandemic, Judd says the older
> technology can still play an important role.
>
> Amateur radio operators have played a major part in emergency coordination
> following earthquakes and hurricanes, he says. While landline and internet
> service is unlikely to be lost anytime soon, Judd says he’s ready to put
> his hobby to use should he be needed.
>
> And with surging phone use causing sometimes spotty and unreliable cell
> service, Judd said he’s happy to have access to a more reliable technology.
>
> “This is one of the most simple ways of communicating long distance and
> there’s that satisfaction of being able to disconnect from the wired world
> and using that very simple, well-tested, reliable way of communicating.�
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