QRR: The Beginnings nf Amateur Radio Emergency Communications

摘要

The devastation in late summer 2005 wrought by Hurricane Katrina — now considered the worst natural disaster to afflict the United States — is familiar to us all. In the post-disaster analysis of what went wrong in providing assistance to those in need, Amateur Radio emerged as one of the few examples of what went right. Federal reports from the US House of Representatives and the White House both highlight the vital role played by Amateur Radio in providing critically important emergency communications.