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Hams play role in welfare and recovery efforts after Pakistan's floods
Written by G0DUB Wednesday, 18 August 2010 16:50
The medical and food support being provided to the many people affected by the flood disaster in
Pakistan affecting six million people is being assisted by the combined efforts of radio amateurs, a
group of four wheel drive enthusiasts and the Pakistan Academy of Family Physicians (PAFP).
Around a quarter of the country has been affected by the floods over the last three weeks that were
triggered by intense summer monsoon rainfall swelling the Indus River into Pakistan's worst ever
flood. The United Nations estimates 20 million have been affected in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab
and Sindh provinces and 1600 lives lost.
One of those involved with the Pakistan Amateur Radio Society (PARS) emergency communications
effort, Asad Marwat AP2AUM reports that more than 20 hams are keeping lines of communications
open and the plan is to increase this to 30 in a week's time. With both landlines and mobile phone
services failed in the flood affected areas, he said that most of the radio traffic is through a 2-metre
band repeater which is now linked to two homebrewed 2m/70cm cross-band repeaters or translators
extending coverage to a radius of almost 300 miles. A few stations are monitoring 7.040MHz but due
to poor propagation is currently of little use, but should be kept clear for disaster use. Asad AP2AUM
advises that PARS has teamed up with the Islamabad Jeep Club which is a group with members
who own and drive 4WD sport utility vehicles (SUVs). Their expertise in driving on most difficult
terrains is proving to be of great assistance to deliver essential relief supplies and medical help
immediately after the flood. They are also working in collaboration with the Pakistan Academy of
Family Physicians. PARS President, Nasir Khan AP2NK expresses its thanks for the offers of
support that have been received from the amateur radio community. Pakistan's national radio society
is seeking to finalise arrangements including those from neighbouring countries to contribute to and
help sustain the emergency communications that will be required for a considerable time to come.
(Jim Linton VK3PC, Chairman, IARU Region 3, Disaster Communications Committee).
SPANISH FISHERY ON AMATEUR BANDS
Written by DK2OM
Sunday, 25 July 2010 23:18
Spanish fishermen are daily abusing 3500, 3510, 3550, 3590, 7000, 14000, 21000, 21222, 21395
kHz in USB, various times. Often working with the voice scrambler “CRY 2001”. They only use
private names, no ship names or idents. Talking to them is wasted time. They are reacting very bold
and obscene. PSE use these QRGs for legal Amateur traffic!
Last Updated on Monday, 26 July 2010 08:59
CHURCH DIVINE SERVICE ON 28 MHz
Written by DK2OM
Wednesday, 21 July 2010 10:55
Church divine Service from Ireland has been observed on 28105 kHz (FM) in 2007. The problem
has been solved by the Irish amateurs and the Irish PTT. Now the Church Divine Service is back
again with illegal transmissions on 28265 kHz in FM. We need your observations and reports! Send
your mails to dk2om@<no spam>darc.de (or) dj9kr@<no spam>darc.de
Last Updated on Thursday, 22 July 2010 10:58 Successful end to the World Cup for Region 1
From IARU Region 1
ATLANTIC HURRICANE SEASON 2010
The Atlantic Hurricane Season officially runs from 1st June to 30 November each year and Tropical
Storm Alex has become the first 'named' storm of this year. Amateur Radio continues to play a part
in gathering and distributing information for the weather and emergency services each year.
Radio Amateurs in Region 1 are reminded that the following frequencies may be in use by nets in
North and Central America to track and deal with the consequences of these severe weather events.
It is possible for Region 1 amateurs to cause unintentional QRM to these nets so please listen
carefully if operating near these frequencies:
14.300 MHz is used by the Maritime Mobile Service Net daily and as well as handling traffic from
Maritime Mobile Stations, also gathers weather reports from maritime stations to assist forecasters.
14.325 MHz is used by the Hurricane Watch Net and the net is established whenever it appears that
a storm may affect the US mainland. The net gathers weather information and links to the American
National Hurricane Centre.
14.265 MHz is used by the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network ( SATERN ) provides
Health and Welfare traffic links for those in affected areas as well as supporting the Salvation Army
Disaster relief response should a hurricane strike.
Frequencies used in Cuba
3.740 MHz
7.045, 7.080, 7.110 MHz
Frequencies used in Central America;
Red Centro Americana : 7.090 and 3.750MHz Guatemala: 7.075 MHz Nicaragua: 7.098 MHz
Mexico (FMRE) 3.690 and 7.060 MHz
Cuba and Mexico co-operate with long distance relays on 40m when propagation makes this
possible.
Local emergency communications groups may also activate if a hurricane approaches their area and
those frequencies would be announced at the time.
LIGHTNING
I have added a page called Lightning which is linked to the EUCLID website. This site may be of use
to radio amateurs in determining the risk of lightning damage to aerial systems and other electronic
devices such as televisions and computers.
What is EUCLID ?
EUCLID (EUropean Cooperation for LIghtning Detection) is a collaboration among national lightning
detecting networks with the aim to identify and detect lightning all over the European area.
The countries involved are Germany, Austria, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Holland, Belgium,
Luxembourg, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden and France. At the
moment the complete network consists of 75 sensors, in these 13 countries, contributing to the
detection of lightning.
The information coverage ranges from the Golf of Biscay to Warsaw and from Sicily to the North of
Norway. There is no other project like EUCLID in the world, with so many lightning people connected
together and compiles lightning information in Europe for a mutual area of interest in common ideas
and results.
The Euclid network provides lightning data for Europe with homogenous quality in terms of detection
efficiency and location accuracy.
Individual participating networks receive real-time access to the complete Euclid data and use this
data to serve clients for national lightning data. Each network retains its national independence and
provides lightning data for individual user applications in their own country as well.
BRIEF RESUME OF GW8PSJ
Working for the National Air Traffic Services (NATS) I led a small team doing PCB layout and
electronic design work and after taking my engineering degree in Communication Systems and
Techniques became an Air Traffic Engineer and was involved in a new radar data processing system
for the London Air Traffic Control Centre at West Drayton. It was during this period that I developed
an interest in amateur radio and became licensed in 1978 and experimented with the manufacture of
aerials and linear amplifiers for VHF use.
After further training as a technical author I worked in the Technical Publications Department for a
number of years. Then finally becoming part of the Telecommunications Reporting Department
monitoring the reliability and performance of telecommunication equipment used by NATS and
creating monthly and statistical analysis reports of the ATC engineering equipment and services.
In 1995 I took early retirement from NATS and took a number of jobs finally becoming an inspector in
the Quality Assurance department of a large transport group. This entailed producing weekly,
monthly and annual statistical reports, setting up monitoring and company procedures until I retired
permanently in 2004.
My current shack consists of an Icom-7400 transceiver covering the HF/VHF bands feeding via a
MFJ-948 ATU into an 84ft long doublet which gives good coverage on the 80/40/20/17 metre bands.
For the VHF/UHF bands I use an Icom-E208 into a Moonraker 2m/70cms/6m vertical co-linear.
I am happy to receive suggestions or requests for other pages to be added.
Please email me at GW8PSJ-WEBMASTER@<no spam>YAHOO.CO.UK
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