A nice little article today from my local paper about a Montana Ham Radio Operator and a hiker in need of rescue in Washington.
Hiker rescued with help of local ham radio operator
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A series of dots and dashes bouncing off the ionosphere Sunday helped save a hiker stranded on Buck Creek Pass east of Glacier Peak.
The hiker who broke his leg used a low-voltage portable radio and Morse code to send out a call to help.
Six hundred miles away in Bozeman, Robert Williams was testing his ham radio Sunday when he heard the call signal, “W-7-A-U.”
Williams replied and quickly learned, in the dashes and dots, that he was talking with a 62-yearold Corvallis, Ore., man, who had slipped and hurt himself in the high Cascades of Western Washington.
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