. University Daily Kansan / Friday, September 16, 1988 5 Local radio operators track Gilbert Ham radios keep contact with Jamaica [en Olson, left, and Truman Waugh, Lawrence residents, listen for weather updates about Hurricane Gilbert on Olson on his ham radio set.] By Katy Monk Kansan staff writer Thousands of people in Jamaica are isolated from outside world by a telephone. Gilbert knocked out electricity and downed telephone lines as it tore Amateur radio is now the only `method of communication between the island and the mainland — and is therefore essential. Messages coming out of Jamaica indicated that electricity and power are available, even when perhaps not for a week or more. Wes Mullenax, Overland Park resident, is part of a network of thousands of amateur radio operators in the United States working around the clock to relay messages and requests for medical supplies from Jamaica to Haiti. The team has received reports that the island's two airports have resumed operation. Traffic is messages and information coming over the radio. "We are now beginning to get a little of the health and welfare traffic from the island." Mullenax said yesterday afternoon. Multenax said he had been monitoring radio traffic since the hurricane started and had been at the radio for 21 to 24 hours before going International amateur radio communication is handled through a network control station, which acts as message coordinator, Mullenax said. For example, if a station in Jamaica requested contact with a Kansas City station, any operator in Kansas City could inform net control personnel that the station would then direct the Janaica station to the correct frequency to operate. Unlike commercial radio stations, many amateur radio stations are radio sets owned and operated by one person. At least four net control stations are handling the situation in Jamaica, Mullenax said. One station handles only health and welfare traffic from the United States to Jamaica; he said, one handles only emergency traffic from the island to the United States; one handles information regarding areas; and one, only weather information about the hurricane. Mulenax said the Jamaican embassy in Washington was using amateur radio to transmit messages to Kingston, the capital. A number of the messages that go through the Red Cross are from people trying to contact relatives caught in the hurricane's path. The American Red Cross communicates by amateur, or ham, radio with areas cut off by disasters. Mulit- and large-scale communications the Greater Kansas City chapter of the Red Cross, he said, because their radio station is not powerful enough and does not have an antenna high to make contact with Jamaica. "They had a lady here in Overland Park that was looking for her relatives," said Mullenker, who has been a ham radio operator for more than 30 years. "We were able to reassure them we were no major injuries in that area." At least two Lawrence residents have been monitoring the airwaves in case any messages need to come in response. He is also a visualiser for KU's division of biological sciences, and Truman Waugh, an scientist for the Kansas Geological Survey, has each been spending time in his radio sets since the storm began. Olson said neither he nor Waugh had relayed any messages because of the limited time they are able to spend at their radios. "You just listen." Olson said. "If somebody says, 'I need someone in Lawrence, Kansas,' then that what's done comes up, 'I help them.' I helped. I help them." Olson said if the hitman hit the Brownsville, Texas, area, he and other local operators would be more likely to relay messages. LYRIC OPERA of Kansas City IT'S DAZZLING! 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