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The fastest way for a crisis to turn into a total disaster is to lose communications. From the earthquake and tsunami in Japan to tornadoes in Missouri, ham radio provided the most reliable communication networks in the first critical hours of the events. Because ham radios are not dependent on the internet, cell towers or other infrastructure, they work when ...

The community will have an opportunity on Saturday and Sunday to meet and talk with Culver City’s ham radio operators to see what the Amateur Radio Service is about. Using the newest digital communications, voice communications and even historical Morse code, ham radio operators will be holding a public demonstration of emergency communications with hams from across the U.S. and Canada during the weekend at Fire Station 1, Downtown.