COSTA MESA
You may live near one of them.
You’d know because they might occasionally pop onto your television or into your cordless phone conversation. Or maybe you’ve seen the 20-foot antennae spiking off their homes.
Or you should, because approximately 40 of the city’s ham radio operators are poised to be heroes on New Year’s Eve.
Two members of the volunteer group will monitor the world from the city’s emergency operations center, via portable hand-held radios, to see if millennium-related computer bugs trigger chaos. Almost 20 others will be on call at their homes, with both video and audio bands, Ron Eggers, a group spokesman, said.
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