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Emergency Management to Take Part in Weekend Winter Field Day:

Posted: 27 Jan 2017 04:06 PM PST
http://www.eham.net/articles/38530


The city's Division of Emergency Management in cooperation with members of
the Cove Repeater Association (Amateur Radio Club) will participate in the
national Amateur Radio Winter Field Day exercise Saturday and Sunday at the
fire station at 415 S. Main St. The event begins at 1 p.m. Saturday and
ends not later than 1 p.m. Sunday. The event is open to the public and all
are encouraged to attend. The Winter Field Day event gives amateur radio
operators an opportunity to practice deploying a ham radio station in a
simulated emergency situation and to sustain radio communications for 24
hours as they attempt to contact as many other ham radio operators anywhere
in the world during that time frame. For over 100 years, amateur radio --
sometimes called ham radio -- has allowed people from all walks of life to
experiment with electronics and communication techniques, as well as
provide a free public service to communities during a disaster, all without
needing a cellphone or the internet.