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"Amateur" Radio Operators Staying in Touch in Asia Posted Dec 28, 2004, 7:51 PM ET by Mike Outmesguine Wireless HAM radio operators were in the Andaman islands when the earthquake happened. Here are accounts of their stories as reported at ARRL.org. HAM radio operators are very often the first emergency responders to set up communications in to, out of, and within the affected areas of a disaster. In this case, the team was able to communicate over great distances using the HF band, which can reach for thousands of miles under the right conditions. "DXpedition" Team first day accounts are here http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/12/27/2/?nc=1 "There is presently no communication from Nicobar Islands," Majumdar reports, noting that Nicobar received more damage than Andaman. McClenny says the VU4RBI/VU4NRO DXpedition team continues to pass traffic and occasionally hand out QSOs. C. K. "Ram" Raman, VU3DJQ, reports he was in contact with Sarath, 4S7SW, a physician operating from the vicinity of a hospital in Mathara, Sri Lanka, which also was heavily hit by the tsunamis. "He is requesting food, clothing and medicines for relief," Raman reported. "He will be listening 14.195 [Megahertz] and 21.295 [MHz]." Telephones are not working there, he said. Asian radio amateurs story is here http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/12/28/100/?nc=1 "By that afternoon, the team had set up one rig outside with a mobile whip and tuner, powered by the hotel generator, and Bharathi [Prasad, VU2RBI-the DXpedition team leader] was taking health-and-welfare messages from the people standing around there," Harpole reported to ARRL. He is scheduled to relate his earthquake experience on US national television during an appearance on NBC's Today show Wednesday, December 29. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Farber Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 8:20 AM To: Ip Subject: [IP] info on Andaman/Nicobar ------ Forwarded Message From: Joe Pistritto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 10:42:14 -0500 To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: info on Andaman/Nicobar There was an amateur radio DX/pedition team in Port Blair on the Andaman islands when the earthquake happened. report on it here: http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2004/12/27/2/?nc=1 Apparently, they were the only communication from there for the first day or so. -jcp- ------------------------------------- Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
