A Minneapolis-based radio group is sending four volunteers to Honduras to establish a temporary radio communications network for use in the Hurricane Mitch recovery effort. The two radio technicians and two translators plan to depart next Friday for Roaton, Honduras, to establish a network for hand-held radios that will improve relief workers' communications to speed the movement of food, water and medical supplies. With roads and bridges destroyed and no telephone or two- way radio services, communications between relief organizations and workers takes hours instead of minutes, said Edward Addy, the group's director. The group, which was founded in 1992, supported relief operations in the Mississippi River floods of 1993 and the Red River floods of 1997.
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