Amateur Radio Thrives in Bartow:

eHam.net News – As a member of the Etowah Valley Amateur Radio Club and the Bartow County Amateur Radio Emergency Service, Cartersville resident Alan Scheibe embraced the opportunity to provide “communications capability” at SwimRun Georgia. The endurance event was presented at Red Top Mountain State Park in Acworth April 8. “We were asked to participate because of our previous experience providing communications for the 74-mile ultra-marathon Georgia Death Race and the 100-mile Georgia Jewel Trail Race,” Scheibe said. “For the SwimRun Georgia event, we were stationed at multiple aid stations along the race course, as well as on the safety boat, to ensure race officials and support personnel had reliable redundant communications capability. “Using our own portable radio transceivers linked to the Cartersville VHF repeater station on top of Pine Mountain, we were able to stay in constant contact with race officials, both on land and water. In addition, one of our radio operators linked in from their home so they could monitor the weather and provide real-time updates via the the National Weather Service website.”

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