Imagine there’s been a natural disaster in your area. You’ve lost power, it’s impossible to get in your car and drive somewhere safe, and most importantly, the cell towers are down. How will you get in contact with friends and family to tell them you’re alright? That’s where amateur radio operators come in.
“In Puerto Rico back in Maria, amateur radio became, in a military analogy, the light infantry. We could get into a community, establish communication and at least get some information travelling out of that location,” says Joe Bassett, a ham radio operator.
Ham radio kept communication alive at Kavalappara
A few hour after a landslip occurred at Kavalappara near Nilambur on August 9, all the communication lines had been cut off. Power failure combined with the breakdown of mobile servers threatened to even affect official communication in the region, if not for Home Amateur Machine (HAM) radios.
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