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Illinois Ops....help a lady in distress (Hurricane Katrina)
This was on the Hurricane Katrina forum:
K DeStefano - Alton, IL I am from Diamondhead, MS. I evacuated with my 3 children to my parents home in Alton, IL. I have a finace and his family down there in Diamondhead that rode out the storm. They need help with supplies. They barely made it due to the water coming in the house and they had to flee to the second floor. There are two elderly people with them and 4 teenage kid's and a5 other adults. Please let me know how I would have access to a ham radio operator from here to Miss. my phone in Illinois is 618-466-1392 |
I'm cross-posting this to rrap since there seems to be a bunch of
horn-tooting hammies there who think that ham radio has the emergency comm thing all wrapped up. Obviously they dont: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:28:42 -0400, (I AmnotGeorgeBush) wrote in : This was on the Hurricane Katrina forum: K DeStefano - Alton, IL I am from Diamondhead, MS. I evacuated with my 3 children to my parents home in Alton, IL. I have a finace and his family down there in Diamondhead that rode out the storm. They need help with supplies. They barely made it due to the water coming in the house and they had to flee to the second floor. There are two elderly people with them and 4 teenage kid's and a5 other adults. Please let me know how I would have access to a ham radio operator from here to Miss. my phone in Illinois is 618-466-1392 ----== Posted via Newsfeeds.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==---- http://www.newsfeeds.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! 120,000+ Newsgroups ----= East and West-Coast Server Farms - Total Privacy via Encryption =---- |
Frank Gilliland wrote:
I'm cross-posting this to rrap Nope, but I am. |
Cmdr Buzz corey wrote:
Notice she didn't ask how to have access to a cb operator. Smart lady, knew that would be a waste of time. Hi JJ. You must have been abused by a CBer more than once. You can hardly post with out referencing CB. What's your call? |
Frank Gilliland wrote:
I'm cross-posting this to rrap since there seems to be a bunch of horn-tooting hammies there who think that ham radio has the emergency comm thing all wrapped up. Obviously they dont: On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:28:42 -0400, (I AmnotGeorgeBush) wrote in : This was on the Hurricane Katrina forum: K DeStefano - Alton, IL I am from Diamondhead, MS. I evacuated with my 3 children to my parents home in Alton, IL. I have a finace and his family down there in Diamondhead that rode out the storm. They need help with supplies. They barely made it due to the water coming in the house and they had to flee to the second floor. There are two elderly people with them and 4 teenage kid's and a5 other adults. Please let me know how I would have access to a ham radio operator from here to Miss. my phone in Illinois is 618-466-1392 Notice she didn't ask how to have access to a cb operator. Smart lady, knew that would be a waste of time. |
From: (Frank=A0Gilliland)
I'm cross-posting this to rrap since there seems to be a bunch of horn-tooting hammies there who think that ham radio has the emergency comm thing all wrapped up. Obviously they dont: - Rock on! Hope all the hammies are into helping when they can. On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 16:28:42 -0400, (I AmnotGeorgeBush) wrote in : This was on the Hurricane Katrina forum: K DeStefano - Alton, IL I am from Diamondhead, MS. I evacuated with my 3 children to my parents home in Alton, IL. I have a finace and his family down there in Diamondhead that rode out the storm. They need help with supplies. They barely made it due to the water coming in the house and they had to flee to the second floor. There are two elderly people with them and 4 teenage kid's and a5 other adults. Please let me know how I would have access to a ham radio operator from here to Miss. my phone in Illinois is 618-466-1392 |
I would say that his relatives would have to get the message out
themselves. It sounds like you know they survived already... If they had a CB radio and battery power other CB'ers would relay messages, radio conditions favoring. Ham radio in the right band would be the same. Even little FRS family radio service "walkie talkies" with a supply of batteries would be worth a try, or how about a handmade or otherwise booster antenna on a cellphone? These are ways, but you have to be prepared in advance, and survive the storm, and you have to want to communicate, maybie theres no practical gain at this point than a quicker rescue. Maybie the best thing is to leave the radio and start hiking... I haven't heard much on the CB since the disaster, Conditions have been quiet in the NE US. K DeStefano - Alton, IL I am from Diamondhead, MS. I evacuated with my 3 children to my parents home in Alton, IL. I have a finace and his family down there in Diamondhead that rode out the storm. They need help with supplies. They barely made it due to the water coming in the house and they had to flee to the second floor. There are two elderly people with them and 4 teenage kid's and a5 other adults. Please let me know how I would have access to a ham radio operator from here to Miss. my phone in Illinois is 618-466-1392 |
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