Lake County Amateur Radio Operators to take part in
Tornado Drill
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At their regular monthly meeting on Thursday evening the
Lake County Amateur Radio Emergency Service was tasked by
their Director, Al Richter to take part in the upcoming
tornado drill as part of their ongoing disaster training.
These local ham operators will turn on their home radio
stations to a local emergency radio network in conjunction
with other radio amateurs across the state of
The members of the Lake County Amateur Radio Emergency
Service are ham operators from
Ham operators volunteer their time , communication skills
and their personal radio stations during natural disasters
to support first responders when the big winds blow, the
power goes out and phone service goes down. Many of these
same ham operators were deployed to do this kind of work
after the Ground Hog Tornado that hit More in formation about the Lake County ARES can be found on the following web site. www.n4fla.org .
John T Luebbers
Lake
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