SANDY RUN – The Columbia Amateur Radio Club, in coordination with the Calhoun County Auxiliary Emergency Operations Center in Sandy Run, held a field day Saturday and Sunday, June 27-28, as part of a nationwide exercise to establish and refine communications between emergency facilities.

The 24-hour exercise involved efforts to connect all emergency communications services across the country utilizing voice, Morse code and data transmissions. The exercise’s successes and failures were then evaluated……

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