[TVARC] SATERN: Salvation Army Tactical Emergency Radio Net - Activated for Hurricane Irma

[Anthony Hackenberg]

Hi Members of TVARC's Maillist,

During tonight's Board meeting a question arose regarding the operation of
SATERN (Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network) during Hurricane
Irma.  So, here's the website to find out more about what services SATERN
can provide during this dangerous storm:

http://disaster.salvationarmyusa.org/news/2017/09/05/international-satern-net-activates-for-hurricane-irma

Outgoing Health & Welfare messages.  Pay particular attention to this
wording from that webpage:

"Amateur radio stations reporting into the Net will be asked to provide
local information about any damage caused by the wind, storm surge,
flooding, tornados as well as power outages and communications
disruptions.  Net operators will also be available to handle any emergency,
priority or health & welfare messages *coming out of areas impacted* by
Hurricane Irma."

"SATERN will *not* be accepting health & welfare inquiries – that is,
requests from people outside of the impacted areas to determine the welfare
of specific people within those areas.  People outside of the impacted
areas wanting to obtain such information should go the American Red Cross
Safe and Well website at https://safeandwell.communityos.org/."

*Bottom-line: * SATERN will be monitoring 14.265 MHz each day.  They will
be looking for other amateur radio stations in the impacted area to provide
storm damage reports (similar to SkyWarn).  SATERN net can handle OUTGOING
"health & welfare" (H&W) messages; but they will NOT handle INCOMING H&W
messages.

Stay safe during this dangerous storm,

Tony/K4QR (formerly N8SK)
TVARC's Secretary
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