Ready for an Emergency, Over:

Amateur radio operators can chat with folks halfway across the world, help with disaster relief from hundreds of miles away and set up a temporary radio station just about anywhere. Members of the Callaway Amateur Radio League will be doing the latter from 1 p.m. Saturday to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Missouri Fire Fighter Memorial in Kingdom City. "We'll be using radio waves to talk with people across the United States and perhaps elsewhere," club member David Mueller said. "We'll be setting up a radio station where there had not been one on Saturday morning, and Sunday it'll be taken down." Callaway Emergency Communications, Inc. will also participate in the National Amateur Radio Field Day event. Mueller explained the exercise is a test for emergency preparedness.

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