[South Florida DX Association] R3-dcom] Ham team pulls out of Haiti

[Bill]

Hola,  estoy reenviando  e-mail con información  proporcionada por Jim 
VK3PC en la Región 3 de IARU,  relacionada  con el terremoto en Haiti.

73s.

Cesar HR2P

EMCOR R2

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    De: jlinton at iprimus.com.au <jlinton at iprimus.com.au>
    Asunto: [R3-dcom] Ham team pulls out of Haiti
    A: r3-dcom at iaru-r3.net
    Fecha: domingo, 17 enero, 2010, 1:28 am

    Ham team pulls out of Haiti 

    Radio amateurs from the Dominican Republic have installed an amateur
    voice
    repeater link between their country and earthquake hit Haiti, but
    their plan
    to do much more in terms of emergency communications had to be cut short
    due to civil unrest.

    The repeater is providing the only communications for the Red Cross
    and Civil
    Defence.

    Ramon Santoyo XE1KK, Secretary IARU Region 2 advises that the HI8RCD
    (Radio
    Club Dominicano) team of eight radio amateurs had to flee the area after
    gunfire and were unable to stay and provide operators to activate a
    ham radio
    station Haiti.

    He said that this turn of events became known during a long
    telephone conservation
    with Hugo Ram?n HI8VR, President of Radio Club Dominicano (RCD)
    described
    the situation as extremely unsafe and scray.

    The HI8RCD team was embedded in a convoy when shots rang out
    resulting in
    several people being injured and one reported dead. The radio
    amateurs was
    not injured but decided to leave unescorted to reach safety at
    Jimanji in
    the Dominican Republic.

    Media reports indicate that the situation four days after the
    massive earthquake
    that has killed some 50,000 and caused widespread damage, is now chaotic
    as desperate people seek to secure their own survival.

    Earlier Reverend John Henault HH6JH was able to make a couple of
    phone-patch
    calls on the 20m band Fred Moore W3ZU during which he described how
    there
    had been 30 after-shocks following the earthquake.

    John HH6JH in Port-au-Prince is doing missionary work with homeless
    children
    said, "It's bad, it literally is bad. We don't know how many people
    are dead.
    We do not know what to expect. It's chaos, I'm telling you, it's
    real chaos.??

    Admitting he was concerned as after-shocks continues, he said "Many,
    many
    buildings in the downtown area are stripped from the ground with
    many people
    buried underneath them.

    ?I'm okay, my house is okay,? said John HH6JH, adding ?We have had
    30 aftershocks.
    We are expecting some more shocks, so I'm a bit nervous to be inside the
    house."

    He was 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.

    - IARU Region 3 Disaster Communications Chairman, Jim Linton VK3PC.

 

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