Field Day 2002 · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by michael on Friday June 21, 2002 @05:23AM from the turn-on-tune-in dept.

suwain_2 writes "This weekend, amateur (ham) radio operators across the country will be setting up to practice emergency communications. Particularly after the tragic events of September 11th, I thought the general public, particularly Slashdot readers, might be interested in seeing what we do. This year bonus points are awarded to stations who have a "Get On the Air" station, to give non-hams a closer look (and even a chance to operator) at exactly what goes on. Unfortunately, the ARRL, who sponsors Field Day, has very little information on their site for non-hams, but what information they do have exists here. Check out the local newspaper to see if it's mentioned, and, if it is, stop by this weekend and take a look!"

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Emergency broadcast??? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-21 05:29 · Score: -1, Flamebait

On 9/11 the Emergency Broadcast System here in the USA was not used AT ALL. WHY?? Because the news channels knew what was going on before the government.

All this talk of emergency communication networks is bogus. They just need to feed information to the news outlets like they always do.