I just left my home in NOLA area, and spent two days setting up
emergency stations, rigging antennas, etc, \grueling work. Then,
there was nothing, 2m repeaters were down, phone lines were dead,
HF propagation was almost non-existenet except on 20 Meters, but 160,
80 and 40 was horrible. I tried and tried but no one seemed
interested. In all fairness, when cellphone/landline communications
stops ham radio grinds to a halt. I don't know if people were in
shock or what, but no one wanted to handle any traffic.

When troops moved in, I packed up my stuff and am now on road heading
North to Oklahoma. In my opinion ham radio dropped the ball
completely, but conditions were HORRIBLE that first week, I never want
to have to go through that again. However, as a ham since 1948 I was
really disappointed in ham radios non-response.

Jim






On Fri, 09 Sep 2005 02:01:05 GMT, Greg wrote:



From: "-=jd=-"
Organization: Little... If any...
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 22:41:40 GMT
Subject: HAm RAdio efforts during Katrina

On Thu 08 Sep 2005 10:54:15a, "Caveat Lector"
wrote in message news:qgYTe.6068$mH.2746@fed1read07:

Ham Radio Rescue Effort On TV

http://easylink.playstream.com/katu/...ator_530pm.wvx

Ham radio operators to the rescue after Katrina

Ham Radio Involvement in Hurriane Katrina



Really? I thought all the kooks and nuts were claiming that the Feds were
jamming the amature bands in order to keep {whatever} secret...

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The hams I'm hearing in the stricken area, mostly on 14.265 and 3.935, are
spending long hours relaying emergency and health & welfare messages, but it
seems like a slow, ponderous task. I would exspect a lot more action on the
local scene on VHF and UHF. In Florida, hams provide a valuable link among
all the shelters and the EOC's via VHF as well as HF.

Greg