Long Island Amateur Radio Simplex Club (LIARS)

Website: http://www.lisimplex.org/

Radio Amateurs (hams) with emergency training helped bring NYC back together when the Trade Center collapsed, and when Flight 800 crashed. Often, the Red Cross and other international aid organizations need to reestablish communications in situations from tsunami to hurricane and fire to power outage by enlisting ham help. And amateur radio is not only useful in emergencies - Ham radio operators can talk from their living rooms to submarines, or if the time is right even to the International Space Station! I-CON is pleased to have QSO (that's ham link for "contact") with the Long Island Amateur Radio Simplex Club (LIARS), and we hope with ham help to talk with the ISS (station NA1SS) and many many others during the convention weekend. Find out how, since before cell phones, before telephones, from senators and astronauts to plumbers and housewives, people from all over the world are even today competing each other in this engaging sport!