Haiti Earthquake - 7.045 - 3.720 MHz keep frequencies clear

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INFORMATIVA DAL PRESIDENTE RNRE ALBERTO IK1YLO



7.045MHz and 3.720MHz
Haiti Earthquake - please keep frequencies clear

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Radio amateurs are requested to keep 7.045MHz and 3.720MHz clear for any emergency traffic resulting from the Earthquake which struck Haiti on 12th January 2010 in case any Haitian hams manage to get on the air, and in case of other related events in surrounding areas, including aftershocks.
Arnie Coro, CO2KK, IARU-R2 Area C Emergency Coordinator calls reported at 0245 UTC that they haven't been able to communicate with any radio amateur in Haiti but if there is presence from amateurs from other countries in the area that also felt the tremor. We ask for your support to keep this frequencies clear.
The following is from an e-mail from CO2KK posted to the CQ/WorldRadio Online Newsroom:
"A few minutes after the earthquake was felt in eastern Cuba's cities, the Cuban Federation of Radio Amateurs Emergency Net was activated, with net control stations CO8WM and CO8RP located in the city of Santiago de Cuba, and in permanent contact with the National Seismology Center of Cuba located in that city. Stations in the city of Baracoa, in Guantanamo province, were also activated immediately as the earth movements were felt even stronger there, due to its proximity to Haiti. CO8AZ and CO8AW went on the air immediately , with CM8WAL following. At the early phase of the emergency, the population of the city of Baracoa was evacuated far away from the coast, as there was a primary alert of a possible tsunami event or of a heavy wave trains sequence impacting the coast line at the city's sea wall ... Baracoa could not contact Santiago de Cuba stations on 40 meters due to long skip after 5 PM local time, so several stations in western Cuba and one in the US State of Florida provided relays. CO2KK, as IARU Region II Area C Emergency Coordinator, helped to organize the nets , on 7045 kHz and also on 3720 kHz, while local nets in Santiago de Cuba and Baracoa operated on 2 meters. As late as 9,45 PM local time 0245 UTC we have not been able to contact any amateur or emergency services stations in Haiti. Amateurs from the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela were monitoring the 40 meter band frequency, that I notified to the IARU Region II executive Ramon Santoyo XE1KK as in use for the emergency, requesting that 7045 kHz be kept as clear as possible ... We are still keeping watch on 7045 kHz hoping that someone in Haiti may have access to a transceiver and at least a car battery to run it. All information that has so far come from the Cuban seismologists tell us of a very intense earthquake, and also of the possibility of other events following. Following the advice of the geophysicists, we are keeping the 7045 and 3720 kiloHertz frequencies active until further notice." Information from Ramon Santoyo V, XE1KK, Jim Linton VE3PC and the CQ / WorldRadio Online Newsroom
73,
Greg, G0DUB
IARU Region 1 Emergency Communications Co-Ordinator

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Some ham radio activity from Haiti is beginning to be heard,following yesterday's devastating earthquake.
Father John Henault, HH6JH, in Port-au-Prince, made contact late Wednesday morning with the Intercontinental Assistance and Traffic Net (IATN) on 14.300 MHz, the IARU Global Centre of Activity frequency for emergency communications. Based on relays monitored at W2VU, Father John reported that he and those with him were safe, but had no power and no phone service. He was operating on battery power and hoping to get a generator running later in the day. He asked the station copying him, William Sturridge, KI4MMZ, in Flagler Beach,Florida, to telephone relatives with information that he was OK.
The following frequencies are in use for earthquake-related traffic and should be kept clear unless you are able to provide requested assistance:14300 (IATN), 14265 (SATERN); 7045 (IARU Region II) and 3720 (IARU Region II) kHz. Additional frequencies may be activated on different bands at different times of day, so be sure to listen carefully before transmitting to make sure you are not interfering with emergency traffic.

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Victor Baez, HI8VB, Secretary of the Radio Club Dominicano (RCD) reports that the RCD with UDRA, Unià³n Dominicana de Radio Aficionados, are preparing to go to Port au Prince early morning of Friday January 15 to install an emergency radio Communications stastion, HI8RCD/HH, and a mobile station.

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Some status reports are now coming from Haiti but at the moment, no data regarding survivors or any other 'Health and Welfare' traffic is currently being passed.



Anyone trying to trace family or friends in Haiti should register their details with the International Federation of the Red Cross at:

http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/web/doc ... endocument


The ICRC are co-operating with the Haitian Red Cross Society and other Red Cross/ Red Crescent societies around the world to accelerate the process of restoring contact between separated family members.


Further amateur radio support is on its way to the island, Victor Baez, HI8VB, Secretary of the Radio Club Dominicano (RCD) reports that the RCD with UDRA, Unià³n Dominicana de Radio Aficionados, are preparing to go to Port au Prince early morning of Friday January 15 to install an emergency radio Communications station, HI8RCD/HH, and a mobile station.

Victor has a blog which hopefully he will update with more news from Haiti: www.hi8vb.tk

Some countries in Region 1 have activated their own stations to respond to the disaster, Jari Perkià¶mà¤ki, OH6BG has produced some propagation predictions for 40m and 20m assuming the transmitter has an output power of 10 watts (very low power) and a compromise antenna. On all receiver sites on the map (there are hundreds of similar receivers in a grid), it is assumed that there is an antenna whose gain is equivalent to that of an 3-element Yagi and is 55 ft (appr. 17 meters) above the ground. His predictions can be downloaded from:

http://www.voacap.com/hh.zip - 7Mhz propagation predictions

http://www.voacap.com/hh14b.zip - 14MHz propagation predictions

Alonso EA3EPH has produced an alternative MUF prediction available in Spanish at:

http://www.ipellejero.es/remer/emercomms
/Estudio_Circuitos_HF_desde_Puerto_Principe.pdf

Live feeds are available on the internet from receivers better placed in Region 2 where any traffic can be monitored, these feeds are available at http://bit.ly/69Mqbr

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During the night of the tragedy, amateur radio operators received a message from the Dominican Red Cross, requesting the use of an amateur radio repeater in order to establish communications between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. This repeater started to operate immediately, with the assistance of Mr Joal Cleto HI8RYF and Mr Angel Carpio HI8ABC. Actually, other group leaded by Mr Joal Cleto is installing additional repeaters in order to improve the communications.

The Radio Club Dominicano has sent communication teams to the neighbour country, in the hope of transmitting from the Dominican Embassy Pètionville, in the following frequencies: 7.045, 7.065, 7.265 and 3.720 (recommended for disasters by IARU) ant the 2m repeater in 147.970.

The hams which will operate the Radio Club Dominicano station with callsign HI8RCD/HH are:

Teddy Jimenez HI3TEJ
Candido Guzmà¡n HI8CJG
Fausto Alvarado HI8FLB

We would like to thank Mr. Goyco, who offered the transport logistics to the neighbour country, and INDOTEL for granting the frequencies.

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The eight amateurs from Radio Club Dominicano (RCD) who were operating under the callsign HI8RCD/HH have had to abort their operations after the convoy they were travelling in was fired on.

EB9GF, who is integrated in the Spanish Red Cross contingent, was able to contact the colleagues from the Radio Club Dominicano (RCD). The RCD has currently two VHF repeaters in use for operations:

- 146.970 (-600), CTCSS 100 Hz. Placed in the Dominican Republic. Please note that the old frequency 147.970 seems to be wrong.
- 145.350 (-600), CTCSS 100 Hz. New repeater active near the border with Haiti.

RCD initially reported that their team crossed the Haitian border at 10:50 hours haitian time arriving at the Dominican Embassy in Haiti at 14:29 hours when they started installing and testing their equipment.

Within a few hours though, reports via the RCD Facebook page confirmed by a long telephone conversation between Hugo Ramà³n HI8VRS and Ramon Sanyoyo V, XE1KK reported that the HI8RCD team of eight amateurs, were back in the border town of Jimani (Dominican Republic). Their convoy, which included other non related Dominicans, was assaulted and one person reported dead.

The Radio Amateurs were uninjured but decided to leave the capital for safety and return to the border unescorted. They report the situation as extremely unsafe and scary.

The repeaters they have installed remain in service linking the Haitian and Dominican capitals, and are being used by the Red Cross and Civil Defense since there is no other way to communicate. The station at the Embassy in Haiti could not be activated though.

To confirm, all members of the HCD team are safe and have returned to Jimanji in the Dominican Republic.

In other reports, John Henault HH6JH who is engaged in Missionary work with homeless children in Port au Prince continues to make contacts on 20m using power from a neighbour's generator and very pleased that amateur radio enabled him to let his friends in the USA know he was alive.

Another radio amateur in the country, Pierre Petry HH2/HB9AMO who works for the UN food program is also safe. However nothing is known at this stage of about another ten hams in Haiti.

Thanks to Ismael EA4FSI, Cesar HR2P and Jim VK3PC for their reports.

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Dear friends,

I just finish a telephone conversation with Rafael HI8ROX who provide the following information:

1) Repeaters

Port au Prince (Haiti) repeater: 146.880 -600 tone 100

Jimanà­ (Dominican Republic) repeater: 147.970 tone 100 simplex

They will work Thursday morning on this repeater including changing the antenna to improve coverage.

Both repeaters are working well and usable even with handheld.

Rafael ask the amateur radio operators going to Haiti to take note of the frequencies.

2) Radio Club Dominicano amateurs are still in Jumanà­, when many wounded are arriving. They are helping Haitians to contact their relatives and friends outside of Haiti but they can?t help the world to find specific individuals in Haiti. They are receiving many emails with such request but security and road conditions make impossible to look for specific individuals in Haiti at the present.

3) Radio Club Dominicano is updating their Facebook account (in Spanish) regularly.

We are updating news on Haiti received from our Member Societies on our Twitter account www.twitter.com/iaru_r2 and on our Webpage www.iaru-r2.org that now has section for Emergency Communications.

73

Ramon Santoyo V., XE1KK
Secretary IARU Region2

xe1kk@iaru.org

www.iaru-r2.org

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CONATEL (il gestore Telecomm haitiano) informa i radioamatori diretti ad Haiti che ha istituito uffici temporanei e ha pubblicato un avviso pubblico.

I radioamatori che desiderano operare in Haiti devono contattare CONATEL per ottenere formale autorizzazione e concordare reciprocamene le operazioni.

Il testo dell'avviso pubblico di CONATEL è il seguente:

Il Consiglio Nazionale delle Telecomunicazioni (CONATEL) notifica al pubblico in generale e a chi è stato particolarmente colpito, che a seguito dei danni diffusi causati dal violento terremoto del 12 gennaio 2010, un ufficio satellite di CONATEL è stato attivato al numero 97 di Avenue Panamèricaine in Pètion-Ville, con l'obiettivo di garantire la continuità  del servizio.

Questa attivazione consentirà , tra le altre cose, un migliore coordinamento per la costituzione di una rete temporanea di telecomunicazione di emergenza ad Haiti. Pertanto tutti gli interessati sono pregati di contattare CONATEL all'indirizzo di cui sopra, per tutta la giornata ai seguenti numeri telefonici:

(509) 3454-0541, (509) 2516-0000 o (509) 3702-1414

oppure a questi indirizzi e-mail:

techommunication@yahoo.fr oppure info@conatel.gouv.ht ,

prima di utilizzare qualsiasi apparecchiatura per le telecomunicazioni o occupare frequenze.

In tal modo speriamo di evitare problemi, interferenze e possibili conflitti tra gli operatori già  stabiliti ad Haiti e coloro che sono appena giunti ad operare in questa insolita circostanza.

Il Consiglio Nazionale delle Telecomunicazioni (CONATEL), ringraziando i fornitori dei servizi di telecomunicazione per tutti i loro sforzi utili a mantenere le loro reti operative in questa situazione di danni diffusi, coglie l'occasione per offrire le proprie condoglianze alle famiglie delle vittime del terremoto

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Le frequenze HF usate per il soccorso ritornano al normale uso

Dalle ore 18:00 UTC del 22 gennaio le frequenze HF utilizzate per rispondere alle immediate necessità  in seguito al terremoto ritornano ad essere utilizzate in modo normale: 14.300MHz, 14.265MHz, 7.045MHz, 7.065MHz, 7.265MHz, 3.720MHz, 3.977MHz.

I gruppi che hanno utilizzato tali frequenze per inviare messaggi passeranno nella modalità  di ascolto o nella normale modalità  consueta di utilizzo.

Vi è ancora un certo numero di radioamatori nel paese collegati a gruppi di soccorso che possono essere ascoltati su bande radioamatoriali e che hanno necessità  di mantenere un contatto con i loro paese di origine.

Si prega di osservare le normali procedure:

- ascoltare prima di trasmettere;

- se senti qualunque stazione che inoltra messaggi di emergenza lascia la frequenza libera ed evita di fare QRM.

Grazie a tutti per la loro assistenza fornita durante l'emergenza.


73,

Greg, G0DUB

IARU Region 1 Emergency Communications Co-Ordinator