Practice makes perfect

IRIS SMOOT/Acorn Newspapers TESTING READINESS- Conejo Valley Amateur Radio Club member Mike D'Amore, left, and Neil Waybright of Moorpark, right, watch and listen as student Marshall Dormire tries to make contact with other ham radio operators. The CVARC conducted a field day in Thousand Oaks on Saturday as part of a national effort in which clubs operated radio equipment and generators to communicate across America. In an actual emergency, they might assist FEMA or other emergency crews when other forms of communication have broken down.