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Earthquakes and tsunamis destroy submarine cables and landline technology. When emergency generators in the transmission towers in radioactively contaminated areas run out of fuel, the remaining functioning communications network in northern Japan collapses. Many mobile phone and satellite stations then also fall silent. But not if radio amateurs are nearby. They have several worldwide functioning networks ready especially for such emergencies: http://www.darc.de/distrikte/d/notfunk/ I visit Michael Becker with my small hand-held camera. The DARC emergency radio officer for Berlin has already been involved in communications networks in Chile and Haiti. Becker and his international friends have the technology to help Japan too. Incidentally, this is only the beta version of the original film. This rough cut and new, as yet unpublished material will one day become the real film about amateur radio and radio amateurs. * *