Amateur Radio Gets Through One Way or Another
The Daily Courier, Prescott AZ
by: Joanna Dodder Nellans
December 30, 2010
Amateur radio operators get through one way or another during emergencies
Lloyd Halgunseth, left, and Jim Zimmerman sit in the mobile command center of Amateur Radio Emergency Service, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary. ARES helps with rescue and other emergency efforts when communications are out.
PRESCOTT – When the Internet, cell phones, electricity and even police and fire radios won’t work, amateur or “ham” radio operators come to the rescue.
At the end of 2010, the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) is celebrating 75 years of helping out during emergencies and other public needs. The federal government created a similar program called Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) during Cold War times to help with emergencies. Three Yavapai County-based ARES and RACES groups combined into one in 1998, and the chapter now has 90 members throughout the county.
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