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 Tuesday trying to match the terrain to a grainy image released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
Authorities had asked for the public’s help in their search for a lost hiker, who was reported missing Monday. The Sheriff’s Office posted on Facebook and Twitter, attaching a photo the hiker had sent to a friend. The photo showed his legs dangled off a cliff high above patches of green brush.
Kuo thought he could figure out where the photo was taken, or at least get pretty close.
The ham radio operator, who teaches courses in wilderness first aid and radio communications at CSU Channel Islands, had searched through satellite images before. Most of the time, however, he was tracking the spread of wildfires.
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.
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. 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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