{"id":1181,"date":"2009-06-13T09:37:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-13T15:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2021-05-18T07:49:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T12:49:40","slug":"texas-ham-donates-to-national-emcomm-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Texas Ham Donates to National EmComm Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"MARS STATION\" src=\"http:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/MARS-STATION.jpg\" alt=\"MARS STATION\" hspace=\"5\" width=\"269\" height=\"168\" align=\"left\" \/>W2IK- NNN0KSI &#8211; NNN0GBY2,\u00a0from San Antonio,\u00a0Texas, will be\u00a0donating 150 copies of his amateur radio emergency communications training course (on CD)\u00a0so they may\u00a0be given out\u00a0at EmComm East, held in Rochester, New York in early October 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, he has given out hundreds of copies of\u00a0this training guide, for free,\u00a0to dozens of clubs, including REACT and ARES groups throughout the country and Canada,\u00a0Pacificon 2008 (held in California last year), as well as two special emergency antennas of his design\u00a0and plans, and\u00a0authoring\u00a0a special &#8220;white paper&#8221; for Communications Academy 2007 as per their request when health problems prevented him from giving a lecture.<\/p>\n<p>He will also be donating one of his VHF emergency antenna kits to this event as a free\u00a0raffle.<\/p>\n<p><em><!--more-->&#8220;Amateur\u00a0radio operators pride themselves on the ability to get the message through, &#8220;when all else fails&#8221; during a disaster.\u00a0 Amateur Radio Emergency Communications (or EmComm) plays an important role in helping disaster relief organizations communicate when land lines, cell phones, and other traditional modes of communication become overloaded or fail.&#8221; \u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;EmComm East is an ARRL-sanctioned amateur radio emergency communications conference, where amateur radio operators involved in EmComm can attend training sessions on technical topics, learn from served agencies, obtain VE testing for license upgrades, and interact with other EmComm operators from all over the area.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>More information can be found at: http:\/\/www.emcommeast.org\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>W2IK- NNN0KSI &#8211; NNN0GBY2,\u00a0from San Antonio,\u00a0Texas, will be\u00a0donating 150 copies of his amateur radio emergency communications training course (on CD)\u00a0so they may\u00a0be given out\u00a0at EmComm East, held in Rochester, New York in early October 2009. In the past, he has given out hundreds of copies of\u00a0this training guide, for free,\u00a0to dozens of clubs, including REACT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,9,4,16,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8813,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/8813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantoniohams.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}