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Show PAGE B2 JUNE SUMMIT COUNTY NEWS 17, 2011 Public demonstration of emergency communications June 25-26 "The Wasatch Back TriCounty Amateur Radio Group" consisting of member Amateur Radio operators from Morgan, Wasatch, Summit, Utah, and Salt Lake Counties will join in national deployment Public Demonstration of Emergency Communications June 25-26. Local "hams" will join with thousands of Amateur Radio operators who will be showing off their emergency capabilities this weekend. Over the past year, the news has been full of reports of ham radio operators providing critical communications during unexpected emergencies in towns across America including the California wildfires, winter storms, tornadoes, earthquakes, and other events worldwide. During Hurricane Katrina, Amateur Radio – often called "Ham Radio" - was often the ONLY way people could communicate, and hundreds of volunteer "hams" traveled south to save lives and property. When trouble is brewing, Amateur Radio's people are often the first to provide rescuers with critical information and communications. On the weekend of June 25-26, the public will have a chance to meet and talk with many local ham (your friends and neighbors) radio operators and see for themselves what the Amateur Radio Service is about. Showing the newest digital and satellite capabilities, voice communications and even historical Morse code, hams from across the USA will be holding public demonstrations of emergency communications abilities. This annual event, called "Field Day" is the climax of the week long "Amateur Radio Week" sponsored by the ARRL, the national association for Amateur Radio. Using only emergency power supplies, ham operators will construct emergency stations in parks, shopping malls, schools and backyards around the country. Their slogan, "When All Else Fails, Ham Radio Works" UVU honored for community service and engaged learning Utah Valley University is one of three Utah institutions of higher education to be honored by the Corporation for National & Community Service for its support of volunteerism, civic engagement and service learning. The CNCS, which has administered the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll since 2006, recognized UVU as one of 114 colleges and universities on its Honor Roll With Distinction. Also on that list are Brigham Young University and Westminster College. "This validates that we're doing more as an institution to remain engaged in the community, which is part of our mission," said Alexis Palmer, director of UVU's Volunteer & Service-Learning Center. "It shows that our program is doing exceptional work and is in fact considered among the best in our region." This marks the fifth straight year that the CNCS has honored UVU, but the first time UVU has attained the Honor Roll With Distinction level. "We look at this honor as kind of a benchmark, and that by reaching this benchmark we know that our efforts are exceptional. This shows that we are doing the things that we need to be doing," Palmer said. UVU has more than 200 courses incorporating service learning into its curriculum. Through UVU's Volunteer & Service-Learning Center more than 11,000 participants put in more than 100,000 volunteer hours in 2010 — an estimated value of more than $2 million Amy ii AVAv-ir 077 • All Makes & Models • Certified Auto Body Techs • Guaranteed Repairs •Approved Insurance Provided •Free Estimates We do Full Auto Detailing & Window Tinting using 3M Scotchtint! 141 East 1200 South • Heber 435-657-0100 were overloaded. And besides that – it's fun!" In the Silver Summit area off US 40, north and east of the Home Depot box store, the Wasatch Back Tri-County Amateur Radio Group will be demonstrating Amateur Radio at "Triumph" industrial Campus area, on June 25, from 10 a.m. through June 26, at 12 noon. They invite the public to come and see ham radio's new capabilities and learn how to get their own FCC radio license before the next disaster strikes. There are over 685,000 Amateur Radio licensees in the US, and more than 2.5 million around the world. Through the ARRL's Amateur Radio Emergency Services program, ham volunteers provide both emergency communications for thousands of state and local emergency response agencies and nonemergency community services too, all for free. To learn more about Amateur Radio, go to www.emergency-radio.org . The public is most cordially invited to come, meet and talk with the hams. See what modern Amateur Radio can do. They can even help you GOTA - Get On The Air! Go Classifieds! 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For more information contact Mike Rigert, UVU communications manager, at (801) 8636807. is more than just words to the hams as they prove they can send messages in many forms without the use of phone systems, internet or any other infrastructure that can be compromised in a crisis. More than 35,000 amateur radio operators across the country participated in last year's event. "We hope that people will come and see for themselves, this is not your grandfather's radio anymore," said Allen Pitts, W1AGP, of the ARRL. 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