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How a Blind Ham Radio Operator Saved Two Lives in Hurricane Katrina
True story of a ham radio operator who coordinated a Coast Guard rescue during Hurricane Katrina when conventional emergency systems failed, demonstrating ham radio's value in grid-down scenarios.
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Why we picked this
True story of a ham radio operator who coordinated a Coast Guard rescue during Hurricane Katrina when conventional emergency systems failed, demonstrating ham radio's value in grid-down scenarios. This video covers ham-radio, emergency-communication, hurricane-katrina, grid-down-scenarios, disaster-response and is featured among our top picks for comms — it also surfaces in Medical..
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