Thanks Jim. Sounds like whomever wrote up the report on the ARRL web site just assumed from the call that Jim was on Guam, not in Florida. (And it slipped by an editor, if any too -- how can you interview someone on an island that's reporting no phones, no HF communications, no communications of any kind?)
It just struck me as odd, and that's why I was asking. 73, ron wn3vaw "You used up all the glue ON PURPOSE!" In Memory of Shep K2ORS (SK) and 10:15 PM on WOR 710 AM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Ron Notarius WN3VAW" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "DX Chat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [DX-CHAT] Who's On First?, or, Where's Waldo? Hi, Pretty sure Jim replied from Florida. I was first to post on the "other dx" reflector asking about contact to Guam. Jim came back with most of the info included in the ARRL piece. I posted the following at 6:26 HST on Sunday the 8th. I posted on Jim's reflector hoping he would see it and have some info. "Attempting a link to Guam. Ken Waters, N4PBY, NWS regional scientist is trying to establish emergency comms with Guam which was just hit by a supertyphoon. If any one can help, please contact me, AH6QO, at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or Ken at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or both). If anyone has a regular schedule with someone on Guam please let us know. Or me. 73, Jim KH7M" An hour and a half later, at 8:06 pm, again HST, K62D posted back to each of us listed in the first message this: "There's no power on Guam, no water, and no telephones. And no antennas. Hence, there's nobody on HF to have skeds with. There are no ISP's working that I can find (no power, no phones to Hawaii). But the government there must have communications to the U.S., because the newspaper says: "President Bush declared Guam a federal disaster area this morning. The entire island is without power and residents have little to no water after Supertyphoon Pongsona pounded Guam with its torrential rain and winds of more than 100 mph yesterday. Rescue officials are trying to confirm reports of seriously injured and missing people. There have been no reports of deaths, according to Civil Defense and hospital officials." PDN also says FEMA is already there, so you might be able to make communications thru them. If it's an emergency, go to http://www.guampdn.com/ and contact the Gannett newspaper people, they have a direct phone line into the newspaper there from Hawaii that was working earlier today, W1RYM in Guam callled WH2U in Hawaii on the phone. I talked to KH2JU on the phone last nite while the eye was going over the north end of the island. He said it was pretty nasty then, lots of flooding in low areas and some missing roofs in the neighborhood. The PDN also says it was a nasty storm, but Guam is used to nasty storms, so there are no reported casualties as of now. You can read all the latest news about Guam on the PDN web site, that's the best source for news that I know of until the phones get working again. http://www.guampdn.com/ Watch for the 'bulletins' at the top of the main page, like this one: http://www.guampdn.com/guampublishing/stormupdate/storm_bulletin.html 73, Jim KH2D" As you can see, various of the info in Jim's note has been attributed to various others -- seems to always happen when things wind up being reported third and even fourth hand, hi. Much of what Jim reported has been repeated by various of us, the original recipients. So far as I know, Jim was in Florida Sunday night when he replied. 73, Jim KH7M Subscribe/unsubscribe, feedback, FAQ, problems http://njdxa.org/dx-chat To post a message, DX related items only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the DX-CHAT reflector sponsored by the NJDXA http://njdxa.org
