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Glenn Morrison in room filled with devices

Glenn Morrison, president of the Desert Radio Amateur Transmitting
Society, a Palm Springs-based club dedicated to everything ham radio.
Photograph: Adam Amengual/The Guardian

No cellphone? No problem! The vintage radio enthusiasts prepping for disaster

Glenn Morrison, president of the Desert Radio Amateur Transmitting
Society, a Palm Springs-based club dedicated to everything ham radio.
Photograph: Adam Amengual/The Guardian

Ham radio users, from teenagers to eightysomethings, are ready to
communicate in the next crisis – be it a wildfire, pandemic or ‘the big
one’
by [78]Amanda Ulrich in Palm Springs
Sat 27 May 2023 06.00 EDTLast modified on Tue 30 May 2023 18.39 EDT
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There’s an ancient fable that Glenn Morrison, a pony-tailed,
75-year-old who lives in the [79]California desert, likes to tell to
prove a point. As the lesson goes, one industrious ant readies for
winter by stocking up on food and supplies, while an aimless
grasshopper wastes time and doesn’t plan ahead. When the cold weather
finally arrives, the ant is “fat and happy”, but the grasshopper
starves.

In this telling, Morrison is the ant, and those who don’t brace
themselves for future emergencies – they’re the grasshoppers.

Morrison is in the business of being prepared. He’s the president of
the Desert Rats (or the Radio Amateur Transmitting Society), a club
based in Palm Springs that’s dedicated to everything ham radio.

The old-school technology has been around for more than a century. In
lieu of smartphones and laptops, ham radio operators use handheld or
larger “base station” radios to communicate over radio frequencies. The
retro devices can range from the size of a walkie-talkie to the heft of
a boxy, 20th-century VCR.

Generations after its invention, one of ham radio’s biggest draws for
hobbyists is its usefulness in an emergency – think wildfires,
earthquakes or another pandemic. If disaster strikes and internet or
cellular networks fail, radio operators could spring into action and
help with emergency response communications, and be able to keep in
contact with their own networks.
Left: Glenn Morrison standing with a U-band vertical antenna in his
backyard. Right: various radio devices that look like a stereo system
receiver
Left: Glenn Morrison standing with a U-band vertical antenna in his
backyard. Right: Morrison’s main ‘rig’ in his home radio room.
Photograph: Adam Amengual/The Guardian

And the historically fringe world of ham radio is having a moment. In
California, there are now nearly [80]100,000 licensed amateur radio
operators, often simply called “hams”, and more than 760,000 across the
country. That total greatly surpasses the [81]number of hams from 40
years ago, even as newer technology has left radio in the dust.

In an era of climate crisis with [82]more intense storms and [83]more
frequent wildfires, and other disasters such as global pandemics, ham
radio is becoming a tool for some who want to regain a modicum of
control.

“Ham radio,” Morrison said, “is like the original social media.”

“People aren’t prepared. And they keep thinking, ‘Well, that’s not
going to happen in my lifetime.’ And it may not, but you never know.”

‘I’ve always wanted to be ready for what’s next’

On a balmy Saturday morning in Palm Springs, the thermostat already
creeping its way towards 80F (27C), a few dozen people trickled into a
local gymnasium, finding seats at folding tables set up below the
basketball hoops. Volunteers with the Desert Rats, who had organized
the makeshift radio testing day for new hams, handed out a stack of
exams. If the hams passed the 35-question test, they could become
licensed as entry-level amateur operators by the Federal Communications
Commission.
The Desert RATS logo on the back of a t-shirt worn by Glenn Morrison.
It features a cartoon rat
‘Ham radio is like the original social media,’ Morrison says.
Photograph: Adam Amengual/The Guardian

One prospective ham was a high school student, a 17-year-old in a gray
sweatshirt named Boaz, who took the course with his dad. Boaz first got
into amateur radio through YouTube videos, he said, a year before the
pandemic started.

“I’ve always wanted to be ready for what’s next,” he said. “If
something happens and there’s no cell service, how am I going to talk
to people?” Getting his driver’s license, his dad added, is Boaz’s next
major goal.

Another newly christened ham, a college professor named Skip Fredricks
who sported a black bandanna, tinted aviator sunglasses and a Star Wars
T-shirt, said he was hoping to use amateur radio in the classes he
teaches about drones. In disaster areas, where drones are sometimes
used for search and rescue missions, the radios could help drone pilots
communicate better, he said.
Skip Fredricks, a college professor, recently obtained his radio
certificate.
Skip Fredricks, a college professor, recently obtained his radio
certificate. Photograph: Amanda Ulrich

“In very remote areas, communication is a problem,” he said. “The ham
radio support is better than just walkie-talkies – and cellphones are
useless in the mountains.”

Fredricks held up his new radio certificate, proving he had passed the
exam, printed on a bright yellow sheet of paper. “Pretty cool, huh?” he
said, looking it over. “My students will probably be impressed.”

Ham radio and ‘the big one’

Since the early 1900s, ham radio has been used as a lifeline during
storms, disasters, wars and other emergencies.

Hams, a term thought to have originally been [84]a smear targeting
unskilled amateur operators, were deployed to the Caribbean in the
aftermath of [85]Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017. Shortwave radio
also became a way for [86]Ukrainian citizens to get news after Russia
attacked communication towers last year, and [87]Taiwanese ham radio
enthusiasts have used it to prepare for potential war with China.
[88]Astronauts have even used ham radio to chat with people back on
Earth.
The astronaut Mamoru Mohri, wearing a headset to communicate with
students and other ham operators during a mission in 1992.
The astronaut Mamoru Mohri, wearing a headset to communicate with
students and other ham operators during a mission in 1992. Photograph:
Space Frontiers/Getty Images

The radios have even cropped up in disaster movies and TV shows – most
recently in scenes from HBO’s The Last of Us that show a clandestine
radio operator sending messages across a zombie-ravaged country.

Living in southern California and considering the region’s web of fault
lines, Morrison, the club president, often thinks about earthquakes.

“If ‘the big one’ hits, we’re not going anywhere,” he said. “You have
to be self-reliant. You’re going to need food supplies and all that
stuff. But also if you want Aunt Marge in Portland to know that you’re
OK, then we can send her a radio gram.”

More specifically, if organizations such as hospitals, fire stations
and emergency command centers call for communications assistance,
qualified amateur operators can mobilize to help; many hams have “go
kits” for just that purpose, with supplies including handheld radios
and portable antennas.

One such emergency response took place this year, as winter storms
pummeled California. In Big Bear, a remote, mountainous community that
saw an onslaught of heavy snow over the past few months, amateur radio
operators frequently went on the air to broadcast road closures and
other local news to their networks. “I knew the roof on one market had
collapsed before it was on the news because I heard it on the radio
first,” Morrison said.

As an informal slogan for the American Radio Relay League, a national
association for amateur radio, promises, ham radio is the ultimate
backstop for “when all else fails”.
left: woman with earphones at desk. Right: two men with earphones at
desk
Left: Dorothy Strauber, member of the Young Ladies Radio League of Long
Island, uses earphones to listen to her ham radio receiver in 1954.
Right: Early radio ham operators circa 1919. Photograph: Tom
Maguire/Newsday RM/Bettmann Archive/Getty

Richard Norton, director of the league’s south-western division, first
got hooked on ham radio in high school because he was drawn to the
hobby’s technical side. Decades later, he’s seen newer hams’ interest
shift to emergency preparedness. In the little town of Topanga outside
Los Angeles, where Norton lives, many residents have thought about what
they would do during an earthquake or wildfire if cell signal was lost,
he said.

One answer? Get a ham radio.

“Even when cellphone systems go down, our ham systems generally are
working and we can communicate,” he said.

‘Working the world’

From a hushed neighborhood tucked into the base of desert mountains,
about 10 miles down the road from downtown Palm Springs, Morrison took
a seat at his desk and “worked the world”. Spinning a large black dial
on the face of a bulky base station radio, he tuned into a realm of
static and distant, garbled voices. He strained to listen, parsing
faint words, then pulled forward a gold microphone.
Man wears headphones and adjusts dial
Morrison listening for contacts at his home. Photograph: Adam
Amengual/The Guardian

“Uh, Whiskey, Bravo, six, Romeo, Lima, Charlie,” Morrison said into the
static, adopting the upbeat lilt of a radio DJ. The illogical string of
words represents WB6RLC, his call sign, or the unique signature
assigned to each ham that inevitably becomes as important as a name.
Morrison’s sign was printed in bold letters on his hat, and the back of
his T-shirt proudly displayed the Desert Rats club logo: a grinning
rodent, its tail wrapped around a radio antenna.

Still spinning the radio dial, Morrison stumbled into a perfunctory
conversation between someone around the general Nevada and Utah “call
area” (the designation for where a radio license was issued) and a man
in Barcelona.

“That’s how you just tune around and find somebody,” Morrison said
happily. “And oh, look, he’s in Barcelona.”
‘Everyone should prep’: the Britons stocking up for hard times
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On a computer monitor connected to his radio, Morrison pulled up a
comprehensive list of 215 countries, territories and other areas he’s
“worked”, or contacted, from this small town in southern California:
Argentina. Australia. Algeria. American Samoa. “And those are just the
A’s,” he said.

Around Morrison’s one-story home, everything revolves around radio.
Desert Rats sketches and maps adorn the walls. A tangle of antennas
sprouts from the corner of his roof. The camper van parked in his
driveway is equipped with a “mobile station” radio for any necessary
on-the-go calls. There are radios in every room of his house, save for
the guest bathroom.

And Morrison’s main radio room, where he overheard the Barcelona
conversation, is the crown jewel. The small space attached to his
garage has a command center-style feel, with an entire wall devoted to
dozens of vintage radios, some over a hundred years old, that Morrison
sources from flea markets and friends.

“Sometimes they just find me,” he added.
side by side images: on the left, small devices with large buttons. On
the right, lots of thin cables
Morse code keyers and cables in Morrison’s home. Photograph: Adam
Amengual/The Guardian

Beyond using the radios for emergency communications, hams find meaning
in the hobby for its own sake, and in the almost-instant network it
provides. Every Monday night, the Desert Rats host a radio “net”,
similar to a public conference call, where amateur operators check in
and go through a simple verbal roll call of names and call signs. That
type of basic welfare check was particularly important three years ago,
during the very first isolating, stay-at-home phase of the pandemic.

“It gave me something to do,” Morrison said. “I’d go to my radio shack
in the garage, flip on the radio and find somebody, God knows where, to
talk to.”

More than an ‘old guys’ club’

Back in the Palm Springs gymnasium, volunteers with the Desert Rats
graded exams, their own handheld radios holstered at the hip. Annie
Larson, head of membership for the club, buzzed around the room’s
periphery, glancing at some of the complex test questions about signal
frequencies and the properties of radio waves. “I don’t know if I would
pass today,” she joked.

Larson, who recently turned 80, has been a licensed ham for more than a
decade, but she doesn’t think of herself as a “tech-y” person. “I’m
just interested in being able to take care of myself in an emergency,”
she said.

Larson grew up in Idyllwild, a small town lodged in the mountains that
loom above Palm Springs. The community, heavily wooded and right on the
doorstep of Mount San Jacinto state park, is often threatened by
wildfires. A few years ago, as one blaze moved closer and closer to the
town, Larson ignored local evacuation warnings and stayed behind with a
few park rangers. Having her radio with her was a great reassurance.
Woman holds small radio at desk
Annie Larson has been a licensed ham for more than a decade.
Photograph: Adam Amengual/The Guardian

“I could listen to it at night and just leave it on,” she said, instead
of needing to constantly check her phone. “If something came up, I was
available.”

While amateur radio used to be [89]something of a boys’ club (and “it
still is a little bit”, she added), Larson said she sees more female
operators today; about a quarter of those at the Palm Springs testing
day were women. And with the wide-ranging impacts of the climate
crisis, Larson thinks the hobby is relevant for all.

“People used to think it was like this old guys’ club, guys just
putzing around,” she said. “But it really is important, because the
population is increasing and there are many more disasters.”

Fortunately, within the Desert Rats club, hams remain a tight-knit
bunch. As the latest batch of radio operators received their
certificates after the testing day, some were emotional as they walked
out into the desert heat. Morrison stood by the exit, congratulating
and shaking hands with each person.

“We’ll catch you on the air,” he called behind them.
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