[SFDXA] ARRL - Helene - Storm Updates

[Bill]

    Helene - Storm Updates

09/30/2024

*Monday, September 30, 2024, 3:30 PM Eastern Update:*

ARRL leadership has been engaged throughout the weekend with key 
volunteers in the southeast, especially in hard hit North Carolina, to 
facilitate any support headquarters can provide to the impacted area. 
The devastation is widespread and greater than many seasoned emergency 
responders have ever seen before.

There are ad-hoc health and welfare nets that have popped up, parallel 
to official emergency communications efforts. Amateur radio operators in 
the area that have the means to communicate have been facilitating some 
level of traffic on several repeaters located on mountaintops in North 
and South Carolina.

High frequency (HF) ham bands are also being used, specifically 7232 KHz 
and 3923 KHz.

There are amateur radio operators working with several aviation relief 
organizations which mobilize general aviation aircraft donated by 
private owners to ferry in supplies. The challenge is widespread 
devastation of road networks to get anything in to the “last mile” of 
distribution.

ARRL remains ready to mobilize HamAid equipment as needed. HamAid is a 
supply of deployment-ready amateur radio gear that can be dispatched 
across the country within hours, providing amateur radio communications 
when local equipment has been lost or damaged due to a disaster.

https://www.arrl.org/news/helene-storm-updates

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