www.kansascity.com | 07/06/2008 | Amateur radio operators holding their own in the Internet age: "When electricity and phone service in New Orleans went down during Hurricane Katrina, ham radio operators, running on batteries and generators, kept communications open.
They relayed a distress call from a rooftop in New Orleans through a nationwide network of amateur (ham) radio operators from Louisiana to Oregon to Utah to Baton Rouge. Emergency responders then rescued the 15 stranded people."
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