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I became a licensed ham radio operator in October of 2011 after becoming interested in the hobby while working with a local emergency management group. I quickly earned my technician and then general class license. 

In August of 2018 I received a call from a fellow ham operator that a hospital in Virginia Beach, Virginia was looking to establish other hospital contacts on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. I gave them my office contact information and lo and behold I got a call from this fella named Ira Swartz. Before I knew it we had spent an hour and a half on the phone talking about radios, antennas and establishing contact with the group.

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Since then we have worked an exercise together and Ira has paid a visit to us here at TidalHealth Peninsula Regional in Salisbury, Md. We still have many adventures ahead. Now that we have merged with Nanticoke Memorial in Seaford, Delaware and McCready in Crisfield Maryland, we have formed a new health system known as TidalHealth. We now have an opportunity to work with the amateur radio group that supports Nanticoke as well as establish a group at McCready.

Time move ahead and broaden our emergency communications.