There is Nothing Amateur About Amateur Radio:

Tastefully restored Orange Train Depot Museum at 1210 West Green Avenue was a perfect setting on a perfectly sunny, chilly day to host the Orange Amateur Radio Club's 70th anniversary Saturday and Sunday. Accompanying the sign advertising the club's two day event, numerous radio antenna populated the depot grounds, making it possible for club members working their radios inside to reach far and wide in their search for contacts throughout the county, and well beyond. Inside the depot where travelers used to wait for their train to arrive, antenna wire draped to myriad radio equipment connections set up on folding tables snug against brick and paneled walls, with operators hunched over in close conversation with one another about technical aspects of their passionate hobby, and more than a few focused intently on seeking out just the right setting on their equipment to hone in on a wave length to successfully transmit and receive to another radio operator far away. "There's nothing magical about it," said President of the Orange Amateur Radio Club Rocky Wilson said. "We are dealing with pure science, physics, and weather conditions." "Even without high powered equipment, if weather conditions are right we can talk to other radio operators on the other side of the globe because of how radio waves bend through the atmosphere." Wilson described amateur radio operators helping pass along information during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Wilson said, "Red Cross shelters were set up throughout the area that housed Katrina refugees. At each Red Cross shelter we had a HAM radio station and we shared information throughout the network. If one location was full but another had room, we were able to help direct the flow of people to resources they needed."

from Daily dxerhamradionews http://ift.tt/2Bq3mDi
via IFTTT