Ham Radio Operators Assist in Catalina Island Rescue:
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The ARRL Letter
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November 5, 2009
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Ham Radio Operators Assist in Catalina Island Rescue:
Around 9:45 on the night of October 23, while attending an overnight
event at the Boy Scouts' Camp Emerald Bay on Santa Catalina Island,
Karl Tso, KI6PCW, and his wife, Deborah Ava, KJ6CRZ, of Topanga,
California, decided to climb a hill to check out the view -- and to see
if they could get into the repeater on the island with their handheld
transceivers. As they climbed the hill, the two radio amateurs heard a
sound; Tso turned his high-powered flashlight on the source, only to
discover a man who had fallen 48 feet to the rocks below, bleeding and
severely injured. Read here
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2009/10/31/11174/?nc=1.
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The ARRL Letter
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