Amateur radio in Moroccan newspaper

Morocco’s French language newspaper The Opinion published a story titled ‘Amateur radio: An exciting and little-known hobby that resists the advent of digital’

A translation of the article says:

This Monday [April 18], the world celebrates the thousands of radio and transmission enthusiasts, otherwise known as “radio amateurs”. Zoom on the Moroccan followers of this often unknown hobby.

You’ve probably seen a few of them in the end-of-the-world movies. The cliché would have them being in their cellars (or attics), sitting in front of a radio transceiver that they manage to operate to contact other survivors or call for possible help, when electricity, the Internet and networks of all kinds have all dropped. Even forcing the strokes, the most common misconception about radio amateurs is not necessarily totally wrong.

In the collective imagination and disaster films, as in real life, radio amateurs are never characters like any other. Often truly passionate about radio as well as the myriad of sciences and technologies that revolve around their hobby (electronics, transmission, physics …), they are always available to take over and put themselves at the service of the community, thanks to their equipment and technicality, if ever a major event forced them to become citizen sentinels. Today, the whole world celebrates these “reservists like no other”.

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