Ham Radios Hum With Storm News

With Hurricane Katrina having knocked out nearly all the high-end emergency communications gear, 911 centers, cellphone towers and normal fixed phone lines in its path, ham-radio operators have begun to fill the information vacuum. In an age of high-tech gadgetry, it’s the decidedly unsexy ham radio that is in high demand in ravaged New Orleans and environs.

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