As residents clean up in the wake of Hurricane Ivan, Tim Skelly Cason,
professional musician from Fort Walton Beach, Florida, now in Los
Angeles California says:
"My Brother, Ted Cason of the Okaloosa County Sheriff's Dept. has been
working with local residents using all types of short wave
communications. All communication was lost during and immediately
following the storm. Short wave devices became the source of
communication within the department and to contact residents around
Fort Walton Beach and Destin."
The damaged sustained by Hurricane Ivan will obviously take years to
correct. Tim Skelly Cason also said "… after Hurricane Opal, parts of
highway 98 were impassable for weeks. Now, Hurricane Ivan has
re-opened the wounds left by Opal and is a stark reminder of the power
of mother nature's fury!"
Tim Skelly Cason, former bassist of the band Cripple Need Cane also
went on to say,
"People in California and other parts of the nation that don't have
experience with hurricanes have no idea how it all happens. The worst
part is the water surge up from the Gulf of Mexico. This ‘storm
surge' brings excessive high-tides and waves about 10 times their
normal size, and in a place that gets 2 foot waves on average, a 10 to
15 foot wave on top of an already high tide, causes extreme changes to
the coastline and any structures in it's path."
Tim Skelly Cason, will be appearing in New York City at the Bass
Player Live event sponsored by Bass Player Magazine, Saturday and
Sunday, October 16 and 17 to demonstrate products for Roland, the
largest musical instrument manufacturer in the world. During his stay
in Manhattan he will use short wave radio to communicate to his
companions. Tim Skelly Cason is an electronics engineer as well and
went on to say,
"After 911, (September 11th,) I'll be a lot more prone to carry a
short wave walkie-talkie when I'm in the city. I'm glad we have this
old technology to fall back on. It's in many ways superior to all the
hype and hoopla of modern digital communication devices."
You can read more from Tim Skelly Cason, former Bassist for the band
Cripple Need Cane, at http://www.timcason.com




"Mike Terry" wrote in message ...
As the third major hurricane in two months crossed the Caribbean Sea, radio
amateurs in the region have once again been in action, providing emergency
communications. The Hurricane Watch Net has been in almost continuous
operation on 14325kHz for over three weeks. It coordinates its activities
with WX4NHC at the American National Hurricane Centre, which gathers
real-time weather data and damage reports from radio amateurs in the path of
the hurricane.

In Cuba, IARU Region 2 Emergency Coordinator Arnie Coro, CO2KK, praised the
Hurricane Watch Net for its outstanding efforts in collecting ground-level
weather data from stations in Cuba. CO2KK was the Hurricane Watch Net
liaison station. He and many other Cuban amateurs were active in providing
communications as Hurricane Ivan passed over the north-western end of the
island. Arnie said that nearly 800 Cuban amateurs were involved in handling
emergency traffic related to Hurricane Ivan. He spent some 55 hours in
continuous operation handling emergency traffic to the affected area.

In the Cayman Islands, HMS Richmond was moored off Grand Cayman but had no
communications to shore to direct its humanitarian relief efforts. A member
of the Hurricane Watch Net called London to get a satellite telephone number
for the governor of the Cayman Islands, which was relayed to the Richmond
via the net. The Hurricane Watch Net was also able to advise the Richmond
that it was possible to land an aircraft on the Grand Cayman airport runway.
It had been assumed the runway was unusable until the net learned from a
private pilot that it was still possible to land there.

As Hurricane Ivan threatens the US Gulf Coast, the Amateur Radio Emergency
Service there is being placed on standby alert. Local Emergency Coordinators
are establishing VHF and UHF repeater nets and monitoring the emergency
frequencies of 3965 and 7243kHz.

A longer version of this news story is available on the ARRL website.

Amateurs Handle Emergency Comms in Wake of Hurricane Ivan
As the third major hurricane in two months crossed the Caribbean Sea, radio
amateurs in the region have once again been in action, providing emergency
communications. The Hurricane Watch Net has been in almost continuous
operation on 14325kHz for over three weeks. It coordinates its activities
with WX4NHC at the American National Hurricane Centre, which gathers
real-time weather data and damage reports from radio amateurs in the path of
the hurricane.

In Cuba, IARU Region 2 Emergency Coordinator Arnie Coro, CO2KK, praised the
Hurricane Watch Net for its outstanding efforts in collecting ground-level
weather data from stations in Cuba. CO2KK was the Hurricane Watch Net
liaison station. He and many other Cuban amateurs were active in providing
communications as Hurricane Ivan passed over the north-western end of the
island. Arnie said that nearly 800 Cuban amateurs were involved in handling
emergency traffic related to Hurricane Ivan. He spent some 55 hours in
continuous operation handling emergency traffic to the affected area.

In the Cayman Islands, HMS Richmond was moored off Grand Cayman but had no
communications to shore to direct its humanitarian relief efforts. A member
of the Hurricane Watch Net called London to get a satellite telephone number
for the governor of the Cayman Islands, which was relayed to the Richmond
via the net. The Hurricane Watch Net was also able to advise the Richmond
that it was possible to land an aircraft on the Grand Cayman airport runway.
It had been assumed the runway was unusable until the net learned from a
private pilot that it was still possible to land there.

As Hurricane Ivan threatens the US Gulf Coast, the Amateur Radio Emergency
Service there is being placed on standby alert.

Local Emergency Coordinators are establishing VHF and UHF repeater nets and
monitoring the emergency frequencies of 3965 and 7243kHz.

A longer version of this news story is available on the ARRL website.

Amateurs Handle Emergency Comms in Wake of Hurricane Ivan
As the third major hurricane in two months crossed the Caribbean Sea, radio
amateurs in the region have once again been in action, providing emergency
communications. The Hurricane Watch Net has been in almost continuous
operation on 14325kHz for over three weeks. It coordinates its activities
with WX4NHC at the American National Hurricane Centre, which gathers
real-time weather data and damage reports from radio amateurs in the path of
the hurricane.

In Cuba, IARU Region 2 Emergency Coordinator Arnie Coro, CO2KK, praised the
Hurricane Watch Net for its outstanding efforts in collecting ground-level
weather data from stations in Cuba. CO2KK was the Hurricane Watch Net
liaison station. He and many other Cuban amateurs were active in providing
communications as Hurricane Ivan passed over the north-western end of the
island. Arnie said that nearly 800 Cuban amateurs were involved in handling
emergency traffic related to Hurricane Ivan. He spent some 55 hours in
continuous operation handling emergency traffic to the affected area.

In the Cayman Islands, HMS Richmond was moored off Grand Cayman but had no
communications to shore to direct its humanitarian relief efforts. A member
of the Hurricane Watch Net called London to get a satellite telephone number
for the governor of the Cayman Islands, which was relayed to the Richmond
via the net. The Hurricane Watch Net was also able to advise the Richmond
that it was possible to land an aircraft on the Grand Cayman airport runway.
It had been assumed the runway was unusable until the net learned from a
private pilot that it was still possible to land there.

As Hurricane Ivan threatens the US Gulf Coast, the Amateur Radio Emergency
Service there is being placed on standby alert. Local Emergency Coordinators
are establishing VHF and UHF repeater nets and monitoring the emergency
frequencies of 3965 and 7243kHz.

A longer version of this news story is available on the ARRL website at
http://www.arrl.org/