[Fourlanders] FW: [Forsyth_County_ARES] Old Technology?

[Rogers, Ron]

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Subject: [Forsyth_County_ARES] Old Technology?


During one of my phone conversations this afternoon with other members of The Hurricane Watch Net, I was informed that Paul Courson (WA3VJK) CNN Washington Correspondant was very happy to inform to the General Public about the rescue of some students from the Xavier School.
He plans to do a story to be aired soon about HWN and all its members.
This is What Mr Courson had to say this evening:
 
Butch.
WB4CKO 

5 pm update -- students found, Mom says, detail 

Students found after escape from dormitories at Xavier college 

in New Orleans 

>From CNN's Paul Courson in Washington 

(CNN) -- A Chicago mother has used a century's worth of technology to 

help find her son, who was missing amid the floodwater of New Orleans. 

Nichelle Manuel got word Thursday that her teenage son, Leandre Foster, 

is alive and apparently OK after he and a group of students in his dorm on the 

campus of Xavier University of Louisiana escaped to higher ground as the water rose. 

She had made an appeal Tuesday night over short-wave radio to try to 

learn her son's fate. The message went out over an emergency, volunteer 

communications network manned by old-fashion ham radio hobbyists. 

In the region hit by the hurricane, some amateur radio operators, whose 

regular home stations were damaged or without power, have been getting back on the air using antenna wires tossed in trees and transmitters running off car batteries. 

But there are very few of the makeshift stations on the air in the 

devastated region, and other volunteers listening and relaying their 

weak-signal messages did not hear anything about her son or the other students. 

So the woman, a computer data entry professional by trade, then used the 

Internet to enter a search message on a Web site -- nola.com -- run by New 

Orleans Times-Picayune newspaper. A student who knows her son replied to her with a high-tech text message to the woman's cell phone to let her know he had made it out. She did not know the student's name. 

In a voice mail left for CNN, the relieved mom said her son had been 

airlifted out of the city and was being taken to Southern University in Baton 

Rouge, where he and others would be given shelter and support. 

Manuel previously had told CNN she had last heard from her son on Monday 

when he called her to say he and a few other students were going to try to swim to high ground along an interstate near campus. 

They planned to put their cell phones in water-resistant plastic bags for 

the escape. 

"They were leaving because the water in the dorm was getting so high, so 

he left and tried to swim to a higher elevation near I-10," she said. 

The daughter of a CNN security guard in Atlanta is among the other 

students who have apparently been rescued from the dorm at Xavier. 

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On the Web: 

To ask ham radio volunteers to try to find a loved one in the disaster area: 

www.satern.org (online request form) 

Frequencies where the activity can be monitored: 

14.265 MHz, 14.300 MHz, 7.290 MHz, 7.285 MHz and 3.935 MHz. 

 



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