PROBUS member Cedric Evans emphasised the importance radio plays as an extra safety measure in the hurricane belt of the North Atlantic, Caribbean and United States.
He told the Tyldesley club that radio hams had set up a hurricane watch which takes information from the National Hurricane Centre in Miami and produces information through the internet on the severity and path of the storm.
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