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100 Years of Amateur Radio in Santa Cruz County:

Posted: 18 Sep 2016 05:03 PM PDT
http://www.eham.net/articles/37566


In an era of mobile phones and social media, some people in Santa Cruz are
celebrating a communications medium used in the county since 1916. The
Santa Cruz County Amateur Radio Club noted its 100th anniversary at the
Museum of Art and History in downtown Santa Cruz on Saturday. The ham radio
club, made up of licensed radio operators, is still going strong in 2016.
Ham radios allow people all over the world to talk to each other without
cell phones or the internet. And while they've been around a long time, ham
radios can play a critical role in case of a natural disaster like an
earthquake and all normal communications like cell phones fail or get
overloaded.