“The Orange County Radio Amateurs marked their twentieth birthday today. On November 1st, 1991, an organizational meeting of the “Orange County Wireless Pioneers” took place, with the goal of providing emergency communication in and around Orange County. The group’s name was soon changed to the “Orange County Radio Amateurs.” It wasn’t long before we were called to service when a major telephone cable was cut, causing an outage across east Chapel Hill. We responded with operators who worked for several days until service was restored. Twenty years later, we’re still going strong. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OCRA!”
-Raymond “Woody” Woodward K3VSA
ARRL Public Information Coordinator for North Carolina
(an ARRL-trained Public Information Officer)http://www.ncarrl-pio.org
Nov
02