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I have a friend who a few years ago, for some very odd reason, decided out of the blue to acquire a ham radio operator’s license. Naturally, I made fun of him. “Hey, Nerdo,” I said to him, “we don’t need ham radios, CBs or Morse Code anymore. There’s a thing out there nowadays called the Internet. We also have something called e-mail” His curt response to me was, “You’ll see, someday ham radio operators will take over the world.” Now, looking at the neighborhood of Greengate, I’m starting to think he had a valid point. As reported by Rochelle Eisenberg in this week’s Jewish Times, Vitaly Galilov, a Greengate resident, has many of his neighbors up in arms. Why? Seems that Mr. Galilov, a ham radio enthusiast, built a pair of ham radio towers on his property. An… read more

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Re: Amateur Radio Antennae
MEMA has reorganized its volunteer-based emergency communications resources into
a new “Maryland Auxiliary Communications Service” (MACS). Organized within the Maryland
Joint Operations Center, the MACS utilizes professional volunteers to supplement
communications during an emergency. Amateur radio is a key component to MACS
operations and as such the state government RACES (Radio Amateur Civil Emergency
Service) unit is organized within the MACS. The MACS is also supported by the Army Military
Affiliate Radio System and a memorandum of understanding is being prepared to formalize
this relationship. During an emergency that impacts communications infrastructure, the MACS
provides a critical link among state agencies, incident scenes, and local emergency operations
centers.

Posted by Oscar Schapiro on 02/03/11 at 02:05 PM

wierd story

Posted by karen on 02/01/11 at 01:00 PM

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