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Eagle photo by Bill Meeks
REACTers Ed Harris, left, and Don Witzel are two of the CB "good samaritans.
and radio waves, local REACT service can extend motorist in distress some 50 miles outside of El
all the way to Abilene, br El Paso, or California. Paso. Because nf atmospheric conditions, EI Paso's
Harris explains that CB transmission during REACTers didn't p i c k the
up signal. The
daylight hours is often disrupted by sunspot activi REACTers he- 800 miles away, did
ty. A CB signal broadcasted in California can But a mobile CB unit typically delivery deal'
literally bounce off the ionosphere and be heard in signal for about six miles, while a base station signal
College Station. will travel 12 miles or so, depending on antenna
Local REACTers once heard, and responded to, qu ality.
a report of an accident on a Los Angeles freeway. Wherever the a land, the goo samaritans
In another instance they dispatched a id to ' a will always be listenisignng. ls