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Podcast: This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro
Episode: Who You Gonna Call? Ham Radio To the Rescue!
Description: There's probably no better day than today, while we're in the midst of a global Microsoft outage caused by a faulty CrowdStrike cybersecurity update, to talk about how big, high tech systems can, and do, fail.
That's why County is now hosting Summit County Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) equipment on its radio tower at Summit Emergency Communications Center. They're doing so in an effort to ensure reliable communication throughout the county, and with state partners in the event of an emergency.
Did you know, for example, that you can actually send email via radio signals? No? Well, neither did...