Yeah I find it very sad where hams have been a major help in many different 
things but never get any credit for it.We have a local TV station here that 
credits hams during bad weather events.  On any of the stations owned by 
Victoria Television Group,

http://www.myvictoriaonline.com

Will have something on the little scroll at the bottom saying things like 
Local hams report a funnel cloud at such and such place and similar things. 
Of course they aren't a major market TV station, but it's nice that they do 
that.  I have a video that was aired over KAVU 25 in Victoria where they 
interviewed our local ham club for sky warn week.  It was a cool thing to do 
that.

We have even had them out on field day 4 years running doing a report on ham 
radio.  To bad bigger stations don't take the same interest.




... 73 ... KD5QHH ...  Jimmy ...
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Scovell" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 4:35 PM
Subject: Re: experience that brought me into ham radio


> Pat,
>
> I remember that crash and have seen documentaries on it but I never heard
> that part about the ham.  Thanks for sharing that.  I do remember during 
> the
> Falkland Island conflict, there was a ham moving from house to house and
> secretly keeping in touch with Brittan.
>
> Phil.
> K0NX
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Pat Gormley" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2008 1:38 PM
> Subject: experience that brought me into ham radio
>
>
>> I don't know if any of you remember the crash of an eastern airlines =
>> l1011 plane into the Florida Everglades, but a fellow on the plane had a 
>> =
>> drake tr22c and somehow he attached a small coat hanger to it and =
>> although he was inaudible on the local repeater, search and rescuers on =
>> the jet boats could hear him and he was able to direct them to the =
>> survivors on the ground.  Unfortunately, the ham later died of his =
>> injuries but the survivors owe their lives to his ingenuity. 73-  Pat =
>> kk3f
>>
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