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Amateur radio in the news: Ham helps locate missing hiker, club honors
father-son connection

Posted: 22 Apr 2021 05:49 AM PDT
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How a Newbury Park man helped locate missing hiker in San Gabriels using
satellite images
Ben Kuo scanned through satellite photos of the San Gabriel Mountains on
TuesdayÂ*trying to match the terrain to a grainy image released by the Los
Angeles County Sheriffs Department.
Authorities had asked for the publics help in their search for a lost
hiker, who was reported missing Monday. TheÂ*Sheriffs Office posted on
Facebook and Twitter, attaching a photo the hiker had sent toÂ*a friend. The
photo showed hisÂ*legs dangled off a cliff high above patches of greenÂ*brush.
KuoÂ*thought he could figure out where theÂ*photo wasÂ*taken, or at least get
pretty close.
TheÂ*ham radio operator,Â*who teaches coursesÂ*in wilderness first aid and
radio communications at CSU Channel Islands,Â*had searched through satellite
images before. Most of the time, however, he was tracking the spread of
wildfires.
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Ham radio club honors father-son connection

Amateur radio has been a longtime passion for Altoona resident Byron Sell.

His father, also named Byron, was an amateur radio enthusiast as well, and
they bonded by communicating with others across the globe before the elder
Sell died in 2012.

To commemorate the passion that the Sell family has displayed in amateur
radio, the officers of the Horseshoe Amateur Radio Club presented young
Sell on Thursday with the very card that started a lifelong passion for his
father.

He was given his father’s first QSL card, which was sent out 80 years to
the day.
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These San Bernardino County ham radio operators are making friends around
the world



When it comes to local ham radio operators, Jeff Richardson gets the job
done.Â*This man has connections.

He works for the San Bernardino County Fire Department Office of Emergency
Services, and has mastered the art of wires and cable, and radio
frequencies.

Believing that emergency communication is a top priority in a disaster,
Richardson serves as special projects coordinator for the Disaster
Communications Preparedness Program of the San Bernardino County Fire
Office of Emergency Services.

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