I’m from Oregon, and I’ve heard from my family about the recent storms and floods there. I’m also a ham radio operator, so when I read on slashdot how ham radio saved the day, I got excited. I remember 12 years ago being one of those ham radio operators helping out with emergency communications, and I remember listening in to the communications going out to Vernonia, Oregon and wishing that I could do more.
Today the Daily Universe covered the BYU Amateur Radio club and ham radio in a couple of articles:
Today I made a post to the BYUARC (Amateur Radio Club) mailing list announcing that I put up a new website for the club. The new site really isn’t really my design, I simply put some links and a title in a header frame while the content frame loads various Google services pages, mostly from Google Groups. The new site (or frameset if you want to call it that) can be loaded up at http://radioclub.byu.edu .
Although I would have liked to have continued with a custom website, I thought it was important to have stability and ease of use with the site. Google Groups Beta seems to provide a pretty good set of services for a club or group to share files or create web pages. I think once they can integrate a calendar into the mix, then they will have a full range of offerings.