[emcomm] Fw: [IARUR3] Re: Disaster Communications - Sichuan
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From: VR2BrettGraham
To: marionlai@xxxxxxxxxxx ; iaru-news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; merope@xxxxxxxxxxx ;
r3msc_iaru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ; iarur3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Steven Beesley @ Savills, HK ; HARTS Executive Committee ; Ramon Santoyo V.
; HKARA
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 11:03 AM
Subject: [IARUR3] Re: Disaster Communications - Sichuan
VR2XMQ of HARDXA QSPed:
>On Monday, May 12 at 0628 UTC, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake hit
>Sichuan, China. According to the Chinese Radio Sports Association,
>the Chinese IARU Member-Society, the following frequencies are
>reserved for emergency services involved in the rescue: 14.270,
>7.050 and 7.060 MHz.
>
>The CRSA Web site reports the following:
>
>"On the afternoon of May 12, 2008, Wenchuan Area of China's Sichuan
>province was struck by an earthquake. Communications in some of the
>surrounding areas are currently cut off, and communications in some
>other areas are experiencing network congestion because of
>drastically increased traffic.
>
>"Chinese Radio Sports Association therefore calls on its members to
>take actions to ensure their amateur radio stations to operate
>properly, and to the extent possible stand by on often used
>short-wave frequencies. If any radio signal is heard from the
>disaster area, please do your best to understand what is most needed
>by people in that area and report it to the local government
>authority. If people in the surrounding areas need to pass messages
>to their loved ones over the radio, please help them to get in touch
>and get the messages across as soon as possible.
>
>"Amateur radio stations in the disaster area and surrounding areas
>if in working conditions should be used unconditionally to assist
>the local earthquake disaster relief authorities, and subject to
>permission by the said authorities, to provide communications
>services to them. For emergency communications purposes, amateur
>radio stations may also be used to pass messages for local residents
>on a temporary basis until local telecommunications services resume.
>Amateur radio stations of all regions should give way to and stand
>by for emergency communications."
>
>Hams on the Ground
>
>At 1757 UTC on Monday, May 12, Liu Hu, BG8AAS, of Chengdu, a town in
>the province of Sichuan, reported that a local UHF repeater survived
>the disaster. "It keeps functioning from the first minute and more
>than 200 local radio hams are now on that repeater. A group of hams
>from Chengdu has headed for Wenchuan, the center of the quake,
>trying to set up emergency communication services there," he said.
>
>Michael Chen, BD5RV/4, said that Yue Shu, BA8AB, also from Chengdu,
>Sichuan, was reported to be active on the 40 meter emergency
>frequency on Monday. "Up to now, there has been no further
>information available from the center zone of the quake. There are a
>few radio amateurs there, but all of the communications have been
>cut out, including Amateur Radio," Chen said.
>
>At 1858 UTC, Liu reported that the local UHF repeater in Chengdu
>"keeps busy running after the quake. It helps to direct social
>vehicles to transport the wounded from Dujiangyan, Beichuan and
>other regions. Another UHF repeater also started working in Mianyan,
>supported by generators, but they are going to face a shortage of
>gas." Chen said that damage in Chengdu remains in the lowest level,
>but the situation is "very very bad in the counties around. A few
>towns are said to be destroyed completely. More than 7000 died in
>the town of Beichuan. Casualties in several other towns are still
>unknown and not counted in the published numbers. It is a long and sad day."
>
>Information provided by Michael Ye, BD4AAQ, and Michael Chen, BD5RV/4
>
>Please pass information on to assist, many thanks.
>
>73 Steve, VR2XMQ
Those on 20m hopefully will hear clear & frequent enough IDs to
not confuse stations involved with Chinese-speaking intruders
that are reported on our bands.
Much of the outside world is unlikely to hear many of the stations
involved on 40m due to interference from China's over-the-horizon
radar from Hainan.
It is unfortunate that across ITU Region 3 the best-suited amateur
service bands for regional emergency communications have for
years been lost to China's radiolocation service intrusions. Hopefully
the 'Hainan woodpecker' does not cause as much trouble on 40m for
those involved as it does for us further south.
This despite an investigation by the government ombudsman in
Hong Kong that concurs with our telecommunications authority
that these radiolocation service intruders do _not_ cause harmful
interference to the amateur service here.
HRSA wishes CRSA the best of luck with its efforts to deal with
this unfortunate disaster under such unacceptable conditions.
73, VR2/KBrett7Graham/p
HRSA.
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