On April 15, 2024, Zoe MacDiarmid of The Huntington News—The Independent Student Newspaper of The Northeastern University—reported on the radio operators who connect all 26.2 miles of the Boston Marathon.

Early in the morning April 15, thousands of volunteers and athletes began to check-in and start the race that constitutes one of the biggest days in sports: the Boston Marathon. Among them were a cadre of unseen—but vital—amateur radio operators who kept a constant loop of communications for the duration of the race.

More than 9,000 volunteers support the Boston Marathon every year “working in all areas including packet stuffing, medical, start line, finish line and everything in between,” according to the Boston Athletic Association, or BAA, website. Of those 9,000, around 300 are amateur radio volunteers …, ¹

Read the article at The Huntington News…