EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS

n early January of this year, I received an invitation from the former author of this column, Cory Sickles, WA3UVV, to attend a one-day conference titled “Amateur Radio in Public Health & Medical Disasters – ESF#8” (ESF stands for Emergency Support Functions. See sidebar for a brief description of all 15 subcategories). I invited my AuxComm Leader, John Fergusson, K3PFW, to come along and we traveled about 100 miles north to Cooper University Medical Center in Camden, New Jersey, to join about 180 other hams and).