[HCRA] Fw: [emergcomm] Digest Number 697

Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:56:40 -0500

                               Eric Tuller   N1QKO
    flash floods+warlords+winter storms+callisto+tornados
        WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS.....AMATEUR RADIO !!
  earthquakes+monsters+hurricanes+evil gods+public service

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      1. Info from ARNewsline Report 1328 - January 24, 2003
           From: "Rick Harrison" <[email protected]>

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   Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 04:34:28 -0500
   From: "Rick Harrison" <[email protected]>
Subject: Info from ARNewsline Report 1328 - January 24, 2003

RESCUE RADIO:  REPEATER APPEARS LOST IN VK1 WILDFIRE

 THERE is some good news regarding hams living in and around 
 the city of Canberra. They are all reportedly OK, but one of their 
 local repeaters may have been lost in a widlfire thats has been 
 sweeping the area. Phil Longworth VK1ZPL who is the WICEN Coordinator 
 Canberra:

 LONGWORTH: "We have a couple of repeaters around town. One which is 
 actually located at the NASA site down at Cape Mc Villa. We haven't 
 heard it since Saturday. The scouts cannot get close to there because 
 they have lost a lot of infrastructure. So we are assuming that we 
 have probably suffered some damage."

 THE repeater being referred to is VK1RAC. So far radio operators 
 have not been called in the Canberra area because there have be no 
 major failures in the nations telecommunications system. But hams 
 are standing by even though they may have to do without one major 
 repeater.  (Q-News)

 RESCUE RADIO:  US HAMS NOT NEEDED IN MEXICAN QUAKE

 MEXICO'S telecommunications system is working properly following a 
 major earthquake and communications assistance from the United States 
 is not needed. The quake hit in Nortth-West Mexicio. It registered 
 7.6 on the Richter scale, toppled dozens of homes, killed at least 24 
 people and injuring at about 175. And while telephone service in 
 several remote areas was knocked out for a time, the Mexican 
 government got it quickly  restored. Also, Mexico's own ham radio 
 community has decasdes of experience making outside aid not necessary 
 in many cases.

 HERE in the United States, Gordon West, WB6NOA, has been monitoring 
 the situation from his home in Costa Mesa Claifornia. Thats about 
 150 miles North of where the quake hit. And he's been taklking to 
 hams in the area and confirms that United States hams going to assist 
 are just not needed:

 WEST:  "In communiocating with the maritime mobile operators near 
 Manzinello Mexico, many ofd the mariners rowed ashore and asked 
 whether or not their ham radio gear on 40 meters might help relay 
 messages back to the USA. The villagers on shore evidently 
 indicated that their communications were still up, and, that while 
 they apreciated the boaters going ashore to ask for relays, none were 
 needed.

 THE mariners did indicate that they felt a slight tidal movement.  
 That was reported the following morning on many of the Baja maritime 
 mobile nets."

 WEST says that immediately after the quake hit he began monitoring 
 the various frequencies known to be usaed by Mexican hams for 
 emergencies on 40 and 75 meters. West says that not a signal on the 
 air indicated any apparent need for mutual communications aid from 
 the United States.  

 RESCUE RADIO:  FISHING BOAT CREW DISAPPEARS 
 BUT CELL PHONE TURNS UP IN INDONESIA

 A strange story from Taipei. A mobile telephone belonging to the 
 missing chief engineer of a ship found abandoned off Australia has 
 been used to make more than 80 calls from Indonesia. Australian 
 police said they are baffled by the discovery of a fishing boat full 
 of rotting fish and its lifeboats in tact, but no crew. News reports 
 say that the boat was found drifting off the remote northwest 
 Australian coast. The phone calls from Indonesia add to the mystery 
 of what happened to the missing crew.  (PacificRimOnline)

 HAM RADIO ASSISTS:  THE MIAMI MARATHON

 AN activity scheduled for the first weekend in February is 
 the 2003 Miami Marathon. Sponsored by Toyota and The National 
 Diabeties Association, the Miami Marathon is a 26 mile foot race 
 starting at the famed Coconut Grove, across Biscayne Bay, to Miami 
 Beach and back again to Miami.  

 THE date for this event is Sunday February 2nd. Ben Nemser WA4DZS,  
 owner of Nemal International Electronics is coordinating the amateur 
 radio communications. His assistant, all the way from New York City,
is none other than that well-known 'marathon man' and former ARRL 
 1st Vice President Steve Mendelsohn, W2ML.  

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