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Where All Communication is Lost, Farmer's Amateur Radio Comes to Fore:

Where All Communication is Lost, Farmer's Amateur Radio Comes to Fore:

From : newindianexpress.com on 2023-02-20

PERAMBALUR: Memories of the 2004 tsunami still flit across minds every now and then. How it disrupted various forms of communication, rendering people helpless to know the whereabouts of their kin. Tension gripped many a family, elders running helter-skelter. Hams, or those with an amateur radio, came to the rescue of both the Tamil Nadu government and the affected people across the state. The individually-operated radio for non-commercial purposes had garnered a base of thousands of users countrywide by the beginning of the 21st century. The operators became silent heroes by connecting the displaced with their families.

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