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Jen Winter (left), Cedar Rapids Public Works, answers a question from KCRG anchor Bruce Aune (right) as Larry Weber (center), Iowa Flood Center, looks on during the Epic Rebirth program at the Veterans Memorial Building in Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, Jun. 13, 2018. (Stephen Mally/The Gazette)
Matt Myers, city traffic engineer, talks with public works director Jen Winter in the Incident Command center at the Central Fire Station in Cedar Rapids on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2020. (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
Jen Winter, Cedar Rapids public works director / By Molly Rossiter, for The Gazette
Eastern Iowans Rely On Ham Radio When Severe Weather Strikes 01/21/2021
A derecho with winds of 80 to 100 MPH struck eastern Iowa last August, disrupting power and telecommunications for some 400,000 residents. But, as ARRL member and Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®) volunteer Scott Haney, N0GUD, recently explained to
The Gazette in Cedar Rapids, that’s when amateur radio shines.
Haney, the president of the Cedar Valley Amateur Radio Club (
CVARC), was the focus of the January 19
feature, “2nd-largest per-capita group of amateur radio operators in the world calls Eastern Iowa home,” by Molly Rossiter.
“For some people, [amateur radio is] merely a hobby, but for a lot of us, it’s much more than that,” Haney said. “Ham radio operators are involved in emergency management, in large event management, in a large variety of things. A lot of times people don’t know we’re there, but we’re actually a large part of planning and carrying out many even