Southern Crescent Amateur Radio Club

ARRL   07/01/2010

Just two days before the start of ARRL Field Day, Amateur Radio operators in South Central Pennsylvania were preparing for a regularly scheduled bi-annual exercise involving the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, located on the Susquehanna River. The drill is required as part of the licensing process for the power plant.

“Nuclear power plants have to do well in emergency planning as part of their licensing requirements,” said ARRL Eastern Pennsylvania Section ARES® District 5 Emergency Coordinator Daniel Sullivan, KO1D. “For hams to shine in that setting is more important than Field Day to the non-hams who are community or agency leaders within the public safety community, and it shows what Amateur Radio can do.”

[Read the entire article on the ARRL website at the link below]

http://www.arrl.org/news/view/hams-quickly-switch-from-drill-to-emergency-mode-when-severe-weather-strikes

Christopher E. Snyder

Emergency Management Specialist  Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency