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- QST, February 1989, page 15 =
- ARRL volunteers, such as Emergency Coordinator Ken Harwood, WA5QZI, are
- typically already hard at work long before the disaster actually strikes. We
- start tracking hurricanes early on, states Ken, because most of those that
- hit the Texas coastline come from the Yucatan area. A week before Gilbert
- hit Mexico and Texas, we were already on the air monitoring radio traffic and
- communicating with other Amateur Radio operators in the Carribean. Following
- the evacuation of thousands of Texans, we provided around the clock
- communications coverage for the Red Cross Disaster Service, which had opened
- 19 shelters. +
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