Amateur radio — also known as “ham radio” — is alive in well in Northwest Missouri, thanks to the Missouri Valley Amateur Radio Club.

Brad Hurd, coordinator of the club, has spent years honing his skills and training others to build and use amateur radio kits.

“We are now the official communications backup for Mosaic Life Care,” Hurd said. “We received a grant to help us purchase state-of-the-art systems, and Mosaic has given us space in one of their buildings on their main campus.”

Amateur radio uses radio waves to communicate for both recreation and for emergency situations and can be especially useful when ordinary communication systems break down.

“You can use internet these days for amateur radio,” Hurd said, “but since it’s a technology developed in the early part of the 20th century, the internet is not required to communicate worldwide.”

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