{"id":678859,"date":"2021-01-21T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678859"},"modified":"2021-01-21T10:44:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T14:44:00","slug":"eastern-iowans-rely-on-ham-radio-when-severe-weather-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=678859","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Iowans Rely On Ham Radio When Severe Weather Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A derecho with winds of 80 to 100 MPH struck eastern Iowa last August, disrupting power and telecommunications for some 400,000 residents<span>. But, as <\/span>ARRL member and Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES\u00ae) volunteer Scott Haney, N0GUD, recently explained to <i>The Gazette<\/i> in Cedar Rapids, that\u2019s when amateur radio shines.<\/p>\n<p>Haney, the president of the Cedar Valley Amateur Radio Club (<strong>CVARC<\/strong>), was the foc&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrl.org\/news\/view\/eastern-iowans-rely-on-ham-radio-when-severe-weather-strikes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Eastern Iowans Rely On Ham Radio When Severe Weather Strikes<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ARRL&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ARRL"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=678859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=678859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=678859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=678859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}