Haiti Update No. 6
Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 18th, 2010
The fol­low­ing update was received from Greg Mossop, IARU Region 1 Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Co-Ordinator.
Dear friends,
I just fin­ish a tele­phone con­ver­sa­tion with Rafael HI8ROX who pro­vide the fol­low­ing information:
1) Repeaters
Port au Prince (Haiti) repeater:
146.880 ‑600 tone 100
Jimaní (Domini­can Repub­lic) repeater
147.970 tone 100 simplex
They will work Thurs­day morn­ing on this repeater includ­ing chang­ing the anten­na to improve coverage.
Both repeaters are work­ing well and usable even with handheld.
Rafael asks the ama­teur radio oper­a­tors going to Haiti to take note of the frequencies.
2) Radio Club Domini­cano ama­teurs are still in Jumaní, when many wound­ed are arriv­ing. They are help­ing Haitians to con­tact their rel­a­tives and friends out­side of Haiti but they can´t help the world to find spe­cif­ic indi­vid­u­als in Haiti. They are receiv­ing many emails with such request but secu­ri­ty and road con­di­tions make impos­si­ble to look for spe­cif­ic indi­vid­u­als in Haiti at the present.
3) Radio Club Domini­cano is updat­ing their Face­book account (in Span­ish) reg­u­lar­ly. We are updat­ing news on Haiti received from our Mem­ber Soci­eties on our Twit­ter account www.twitter.com/iaru_r2 and on our web­page www.iaru-r2.org that now has sec­tion for Emer­gency Communications.
73, Ramon San­toyo V., XE1KK, Sec­re­tary IARU Region 2.