Radio hams have a Field Day

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Radio hams have a Field Day

By Timothy O'Connor • The Journal News • June 29, 2008

KENT - Tom Poole was 18 when he caught the bug for ham radio. A friend used his amateur radio to call his home phone. Poole was stunned when it rang.

"I was hooked," he said.

That was more than 30 years ago. Yesterday, Poole was one of thousands of licensed amateur radio operators - who call each other simply "hams" - around the country who took part in the American Radio Relay League's annual Field Day, where clubs show how ham radio operators can continue to communicate when disaster strikes - either natural or man-made.

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