Amateur Radio Disaster Response

From the WL2KEMCOMM Yahoo group

Subject: [wl2kemcomm] From the front lines

Posted on: http:// groups.yahoo.com/group/wl2kemcomm/

I returned last night from Bogalusa, LA, after a week of sleeping on the
floor in a church.

I worked with the Texas Baptist Men Communications unit from SABA. We
set up the first communications into and out of Bogalusa since the
hurricane hit. […]

Hundreds of Amateur Radio operators from the Gulf Coast and elsewhere in the
US continue to volunteer their skills and expertise as the Hurricane Katrina
relief effort heads into its third week.