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Young County Amateur Radio Club hosts exercise
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Young County Amateur Radio Club President Dan Hooper operates a ham radio on Saturday on the downtown square. The club was on the square performing an exercise in case of an emergency where there was an outage and ham radio was required. (Leader photo by Thomas Wallner)
Thomas Wallner
editor@grahamleader.com
The Young County Amateur Radio Club set up on the downtown square last Saturday as an exercise for communications in the event of an emergency outage.
The group, which totals 15-20 members, was on the square with the command and communication trailer used by the city of Graham which was loaned to them and set up with a large antenna. The group set up their operations with a solar-powered generator to show the communication services could run off the grid if needed.
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