Here Comes Another One! Hams and the Hurricanes of 2004—Part Ⅰ

摘要

Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November... Do you remember the rest of the saying to figure out the number of days in a month? The 31 days of August seemed like a nightmare in the tropics as one hurricane after another battered the eastern United States and the Caribbean. Alex, Bonnie, Charley, Earl, Frances, Gaston, and Ivan gathered their fury and aimed at points west. This month we'll take a look at an overview of the worldwide amateur radio response when normal communications failed. Next month we'll continue our coverage with specifics of Hurricane Ivan (which, as this was written, had not yet made landfall in the United States) —and possibly Jeanne—and look at some of the after-action reports that are coming in.