Haiti Earthquake Disaster and Ham Radio

When all else fails, Ham Radio Works!

Whenever there is a disaster, the communication infrastructure is diminished if not entirely destroyed. There is no cell-phone service or Internet. There is no way to communicate for emergency personnel.

Ham Radio or Amateur Radio comes to the rescue.
http://emergency-radio.org/hamworks.html
http://emergency-radio.org
Ham Radio Operators have been monitoring the frequencies set aside for emergency communications. On the second day of the disaster Ham Radio Operators through the Salvation Army Team Emergency Network or SATERN passed more than 60,000 emergency inquiries.

Currently there is a team from the Dominican Republic setting up a radio tower, repeaters, and other emergency communications to help with the communications efforts.



Re-Broadcast of actual Ham Radio Communications in Haiti
When telephones, internet, and power are cut off, Amateur Radio fills vital communications needs. Fred Moore of Florida, callsign W3ZU provides a radio/telephone patch for Jean-Robert Gaillard, callsign HH2JR, of Port au Prince.

Live Broadcast from the Ham Radio SATERN Nets from N4QLB ustream
(Only broadcasting when there is activity)

Live TV : Ustream



Fox News did a small segment about my neighbor, Paul N0AH, who lives up the street from me.

Link to Video Segment

More Information:
This is the information that went out to Ham Radio Operators:

On Tuesday (January 12) there was a 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti , which has since been followed by serious aftershocks. Communications in and out of Haiti have been disrupted. No word has been received as of yet from any of the national HH Amateur Radio operators. The

DailyDX notes that HH2/HB9AMO, Pierre , is OK and was located about 140 km north of Port-au-Prince in Cap Haitien at the time.

The IARU Region II Area C Emergency Coordinator, Arnie Coro, CO2KK, is coordinating the multi-national response by hams. There are organized nets on 7045 and 3720 kHz and amateurs are asked to monitor but also keep the frequencies clear of non-essential traffic. Amateur Radio operators should also be aware that emergency traffic pertaining to the Haitian earthquake is expected on the SATERN frequencies of 14265, 7265 and 3977. Amateur Radio operators are circled around Haiti in Cuba , Florida , the Dominican Republic , Puerto Rico , Venezuela and other locations listening for any calls. Please stay clear of the following frequencies:
14265 7045 7265 3977 3720 mhz

Links:

• SATERN - http://www.satern.org

• Haiti Ham Radio Live Audio Feeds
  
• Another Video News Segment from Houston Texas
• SATERN Health and Welfare Request Form
• Salvation Army Response
• Another Video News Story from Panama City
• It's Chaos!
• Emergency Radio
• Ham Radio Breaking News
• More Ham Radio News
  

Bucky
KC7CPM

Survived Christmas 2009

Christmas 2009 is over. It was a little crazy this year. We were blessed to have almost everyone home this year. James, Sean, Gina were here as well as my Utah Kids, Wesley, Corey and Christian.

Corey was super hyper active the entire two weeks! This made it kind of tough! Also there was the constant changing of the diapers and cleaning Corey up.

Christian is afraid of our newest Labrador Dog, "Carter". So he screams anytime Carter gets near him.

Speaking of the dogs, Annie, one of our Corgi's, decided to go into heat the entire Christmas break. This caused much hyper-activity amongst our other two male dogs, Jake and Carter. This caused Jake to mark his territory all over the house! This caused Carter to whine and bark frequently which fed more screaming for Christian who is autistic and very afraid of BIG dogs.

We did manage a ski trip at Breckenridge, which was great for Wesley and myself, but not so great for Merial since she got stuck baby-sitting Corey and Christian. It was a little stressful with Corey's constant vocal "Eee-EEee-Eeee" (If you know Corey, you know what I mean).

We were blessed to have everyone but it's always a culture shock when all the kids get together, since we don't always have the opportunity to have them all during the year.

It is a blessing for my daughter Gina to be spending her Senior year here in Colorado with Dad!

I'm grateful for Merial for putting up with me and all the kids! In spite of all the chaos I really love our non-traditional family. I know the kids are all growing up so fast and we won't have these chaotic opportunities much longer.

It was a Merry, Crazy Christmas!