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Amateur radio operators turn to analog tech to communicate during pandemic

  by [47]Kelvin Gawley

  Posted Apr 9, 2020 12:47 pm PDT

  Last Updated Apr 9, 2020 at 1:08 pm PDT
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  Hobbyists check in regularly to test gear, stay in touch

  MAPLE RIDGE (NEWS 1130) – While millions of isolated people around the
  world discover new digital ways of staying in touch, some are going
  back to the analog basics.

  Paul Judd of Maple Ridge is part of a small but passionate community of
  amateur radio operators.

  “It’s one of the most elemental ways of communicating between two
  persons or two stations or two places without having the huge
  infrastructure” of other forms of communication, he says.

  Judd, whose call sign is VA7XQ, fires up his home station daily to
  check in with fellow ham radio users around the region and, sometimes,
  around the world.

  The check-ins with different networks – or nets, as they’re known –
  allow operators to ensure their gear is working properly, but they also
  allow for more casual conversation.

  “There’s an informal part where you can chew the fat and catch up with
  a friend,” Judd says.

  Typically, operators ask after each others’ families and health.
  Lately, Judd says, the conversations have been turning to how everyone
  is coping with the new reality of physical distancing during the
  pandemic.

  But the ham radio crowd is probably better suited for isolation than
  most, he says.

  “We tend to want to sit in a room with radio equipment and talk to
  people who are in isolated locations to begin with,” he says. “It sort
  of comes natural to a ham radio operator to be isolated.”

  As more and more people turn to social media, video conferencing and
  cell phones to communicate during the COVID-19 pandemic, Judd says the
  older technology can still play an important role.

  Amateur radio operators have played a major part in emergency
  coordination following earthquakes and hurricanes, he says. While
  landline and internet service is unlikely to be lost anytime soon, Judd
  says he’s ready to put his hobby to use should he be needed.

  And with surging phone use causing sometimes spotty and unreliable cell
  service, Judd said he’s happy to have access to a more reliable
  technology.

  “This is one of the most simple ways of communicating long distance and
  there’s that satisfaction of being able to disconnect from the wired
  world and using that very simple, well-tested, reliable way of
  communicating.”
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