Check WQRZ Out on PBS! Moyers on America Chapter 5! http://www.pbs.org/moyers/media_players/chapter3-6.html

We are proud to be the 1st Amateur Radio Organization Owned Broadcast Facility in the US (and proud Mississippians) to serve our State and model top the country as the First Broadcast Station to be attached to an Emergency Operations Center.

We of course lost everything except ..1 our lives and .. 2 our commitment to our community to serve as a facility built to survive another Camille. We have succeed and are proud (most importantly blessed) that we could serve our wonderful community as the only surviving Radio station (expecially the worst and most destructive, no words or pictures can describe the damage here in Hancock County)

As Wade, Stacey and myself continue to volunteer to our community and the Hancock County EOC, we and the Non profit Hancock County Amateur Radio Association, Inc. (owns the license WQRZ) have no way or resources to rebuild our personal lives much less the HCARA and its facility. We unfortunately are on SSI and the Corp has not been able to raise more than $10,000.00 in 3 years of our operation. We were granted a power upgrade from the FCC to serve this community for safety of life, health and property and distribute vital information directly out of the EOC to the public. We ask for your help in support of our petition to theFCC in the public interest for our permanent WQRZ upgrade to a full powered class A broadcast station for our community (rain shine or God forbid another Katrina) to be built and further continue our development of HCARA's community service radio protection project. We have had wonderful support from EMAC teams that have come here and they all now want to model after what our organization has accomplished in support of our emergency operations center here in Hancock to implement back at their EOC's all over the country.

Please support our mission to serve our community and assist us for the recognition that we developed here in (my home.and the station..what used to physically left) Mississippi.Christine and Myself are proud as disabled citizens to have the motivation to have entirely build, staff and run WQRZ for our community.

To our Supporters:

Thanks for any assistance you can provide, We are proud to volunteer our service as a hopefully continued support function of this Hancock County EOC and a continued model to other EOC's what we will continue to do to pioneer our concept and develop it's insurmountable concept to serve each other in this lifetime with the abilities you have (not disabilities that can plague you..he..hee :0 )

A Special thanks to our Emergency Management Director Brian "Hooty" Adam who has done an outstanding job for this county and the state for his dedication to the people and the insight to support our (HCARA) concept to serve above and far beyond any other broadcast station commitment to the safety of life. (and putting up with us too....)

Mobile Hancock County Emergency Operation Center Unit .. 082905

Music therapy and Laughter is truly the best Medication!!

God Bless WQRZ Community Radio Station (Katrina Radio) 4340 Indian Street Bay Saint Louis, Ms. 39520 228-463-1035

Serving our community "Rain, Shine or God Forbid another Hurricane Katrina"

1st Amateur Radio Based Organization Owned Broadcast Station The Power of Radio is the Point!!!

Please Write Letters to our Public Officials To Let them know about our CRITICAL FACILITY.

We will not be eligible for PUBLIC ASSISTANCE GRANT to help us REBUILD unless you help us convince them that this 1 of the 4 surviving Radio Stations out of 41 throughout Miss Gulf Coast and New Orleans, WQRZ is truly a CRITICAL FACILITY!!