Storm disasters, blackout scenarios, help in remote areas: when nothing else works, amateur radio comes into play and keeps communication going. Digitization is helping the hobby attract new enthusiasts, even in the mobile phone era. People have long since upgraded from pure voice transmission to the digital level.
We couldn’t take a quick look – in no time they set up a WLAN for us in the middle of the forest.” – Thomas Hauser recalls a disaster operation in Slovenia, where “nothing would have worked without dedicated amateur radio. Electricity was available everywhere, the regions did not, the usual communication channels had come to a standstill. “But we were able to contact the control center in Tulln by radio and the exchange with the emergency services was also secured,” said the director of the Lower Austrian Civil Protection Association.
Source: Krone
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