[Ccarc] ham radio to be on weather channel (Katrina coverage)

[Phil Snider]

* Katrina documentary to air: The documentary "Postmark: Katrina" will air
on The Weather Channel <http://www.weather.com/> Sunday and Monday, August
27 and 28, at 8 PM Eastern and Pacific Time as part of the cable network's
Storm Stories series. The hour-long program, produced by ARRL Member Les
Rayburn, N1LF, focuses on the restoration of mail service to the US Gulf
Coast in the wake of the devastating storm and mentions Amateur Radio's role
in the storm response and recovery effort. Rayburn and his crew were
embedded for six weeks with US Postal Inspection Service officers within
hours of Katrina's landfall. "In our documentary, there is some brief
Amateur Radio voice traffic depicted, along with a graphic explaining how
repeaters work, and even some Morse code," Rayburn told ARRL. "Our missions
took us to Waveland, Biloxi, New Orleans, Bay St Louis and on to Houston.
When not on duty filming, I also conducted mobile HF missions for the
National Communications System SHARES program, keeping in contact with their
watch desk on 20 meters." In addition to the August 27-28 airings, Rayburn
expects the program to air at other times in the coming weeks. "We were
proud to tell the story of how the US Postal Service worked tirelessly to
restore mail to the affected area, and also to aid in the recovery using our
amateur HF station," he says.