How radio helps the Haiti disaster ...

From Tom Taylor:

Shively Labs donates a custom FM antenna to help the United Nations in Haiti.

It’s a new-model 6020 broadband dipole which was designed for just such situations – it “doesn’t really care what it’s mounted on”, a rep from Howell Labs/Shively tells T-R-I. It can broadcast on any FM frequency and it can operate in either a pressurized or non-pressurized environment because of its “vapor barrier.” Shively employees in Maine worked over the weekend to prepare the 6020, which was shipped to Miami and sent to Haiti. Shively did that in cooperation with a Canadian partner. (See the antenna here.) Shively’s employee-owned parent Howell Laboratories contributed to Haiti in an even more unexpected way. Howell makes a shipboard system that creates potable water, and its tech Matt Smith was on board the USS Carl Vinson for sea trials when the ship was diverted to the earthquake zone. Howell says “The USS Carl Vinson’s capability to manufacture over 400,000 gallons of drinking water a day is being fully utilized” during the emergency, for the benefit of the population.