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Follow on Google News | “Who ya’ gonna call? Westchester County's own Radio Hams!”Public Demo of Emergency Communications June 28-29, Harbor Island, Mamaroneck, NY
By: WECA Over the past year, the news has been full of reports of ham radio operators providing critical communications during unexpected emergencies in towns across America including the California wildfires, winter storms, tornadoes and other events world-wide. When trouble is brewing, Amateur Radio’s people are often the first to provide rescuers with critical information and communications. On the weekend of June 28-29, the public will have a chance to meet and talk with Westchester County's ham radio operators and see for themselves what the Amateur Radio Service is about as hams across the USA will be holding public demonstrations of emergency communications abilities. This annual event, called "Field Day" is the climax of the week long "Amateur Radio Week" sponsored by the ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio. Using only emergency power supplies, ham operators will construct emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and backyards around the country. Their slogan, "When All Else Fails, Ham Radio Works” is more than just words to the hams as they prove they can send messages in many forms without the use of phone systems, internet or any other infrastructure that can be compromised in a crisis. More than 35,000 amateur radio operators across the country participated in last year's event. The fastest way to turn a crisis into a total disaster is to lose communications,” In the Mamaroneck, NY area, the Westchester Emergency Communications Association (WECA) will be demonstrating Amateur Radio at Harbor Island on June 28th at 1pm and ending on June 29th at 12pm. They invite the public to come and see ham radio’s new capabilities and learn how to get their own FCC radio license through WECAs own educational program before the next disaster strikes. Amateur Radio is growing in the US. There are now over 700,000 Amateur Radio licensees in the US, and more than 2.5 million around the world. Through the ARRL’s Amateur Radio Emergency Services program, ham volunteers provide both emergency communications for thousands of state and local emergency response agencies and nonemergency community services too, all for free. To learn more about Amateur Radio, go to www.emergency- End
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