Hi Gary!

Yes, it does seem that the connection needed here is buarried within the
organisational burocracy. ARRL's field organisation has emergency
coordinators aside from club promotion.  The net directory is another good
source. But then down here in these parts, people seem to take their
holidays more seriously than normal responsibilities, so it's a bit ironic
that people in our area probably won't be well served if a genuine emergency
hits sometime between 20 December to 20 January.

Heck, I'm even coping with a little sunburn I picked up in the course of
holiday cellebrations, hi hi.

73,
Dave

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Subject: possible news article

Hi all,
A friend wishes to write an article about ham radio and was addressing =
this to the general public.  He was wondering if there might be a source =
available to the general public on how one can find if there any ham = radio
operators in their area.  This would be for a person who is = preparing an
emergency kit and wanted to know if there is any hams in = his area in case
he has to notify family that he is OK.  I thought the = ARRL would be a
source, but there isn=E2=80=99t a search by zip codes.  = I know that there
is a zip code search under the advance search page on = any of the callsign
data bases.  Gary KB2YAA