July 26, 2008
Take Amateur Radio out into the community. Tuesday August 5 2008. Meet your neighbors and promote ham radio as a useful tool to combat crime in our community.
NATIONAL NIGHT OUT is designed to:
Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness; Generate support for, and participation in, local anticrime programs; Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-community partnerships; and Send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back.
Along with the traditional display of outdoor lights and front porch vigils, cities, towns and neighborhoods ‘celebrate’ NNO with a variety of events and activities such as:
block parties,
cookouts,
visits from local police and sheriff departments
parades,
exhibits,
flashlight walks,
contests, and
youth programs.
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May 12, 2008
Re-scheduled for Saturday, June 7th We will be supporting the Sierra Madre Search and Rescue Team and the Mount Wilson Trail Race committe in providing a communications and safety net. This to help ensure the safety of those runners participating in the 100 Year Anniversary Mount Wilson Trail Run. This is a grueling 8.6 mile course with a substantial gain in elevation. We will post communications team members in various locations along the course to monitor the race as it progresses and sweep the course after the participants have begun their downhill run from Orchard Camp.
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August 7, 2007
RESCUE RADIO: HAMWATCH AND THE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT The mayor of South El Monte, California, has praised ham radio operators who assist her city and the nation in time of need and she did so in a most unusual way. On the air.
Click here to listen — Mayor Figueroa: “To all of you Hamwatch operators, thank you for helping all of your cities. National Night Out – remember to say no to crime, leave yiur lights on and thank you for doing a great job. God bless you and god bless America.” —
That’s Mayor Blanca Figueroa and the story of how she got to thank the ham community for its involvement is actually a story unto itself. One that kind of involves us here at Newsline. At least peripherally.
On Tuesday August 7th, communities across the nation participated in the “National Night Out.” This is an opportunity for communities to to promote activities aimed at increasing security with programs such as Neighborhood Watch, Community Emergency Response Teams and of course Amateur Radio.
One such event was held in the City of South El Monte, a suburb of Los Angeles. That’s where members of the Temple Station Hamwatch Group were present to display radio equipment and answer questions related to Ham Radio.
As part of the demonstration Deputy Hector Figueroa, KE6VRL, used a portable station to transmit what the group calls the “Amateur Radio Newsline – Check-In Net” at its regularly scheduled time on the local N6USO repeater. As the net was winding down, Mayor Figueroa requested a moment at the microphone. And as you heard, she used it to thank the members of Hamwatch and the Amateur Radio community for their ongoing efforts to communities all across the United States. (KE6VRL)
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