Turkey Earth­quake
On 23rd Octo­ber at 10.41UTC a mag­ni­tude 7.2 earth­quake struck the Van region of East­ern Turkey caus­ing great loss of life and hun­dreds of casu­al­ties. Radio Ama­teurs from the Turk­ish nation­al soci­ety TRAC are respond­ing to assist with com­mu­ni­ca­tions in the area. There are some fre­quen­cies in use on HF, cur­rent­ly used to link with Gov­ern­ment resources and this is mean­ing that some fre­quen­cies out­side the ama­teur band­plan and nor­mal usage are being used until more equip­ment gets to the region. When this hap­pens, more traf­fic should move to the nor­mal Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Cen­tre of Activ­i­ty frequencies.Please avoid caus­ing QRM to emer­gency traf­fic on 7.092 MHz USB. USB is being used to allow com­mu­ni­ca­tions with a gov­ern­ment station.More infor­ma­tion will be post­ed on this web­site when it is avail­able from TRAC.”Note that I have said that out of band fre­quen­cies may be used but not giv­en them out on the web­site. The TRAC web­site is now only show­ing 3.500 LSB as a night time frequency.
On 23rd Octo­ber at 10.41UTC a mag­ni­tude 7.2 earth­quake struck the Van region of East­ern Turkey caus­ing great loss of life and hun­dreds of casu­al­ties. Radio Ama­teurs from the Turk­ish nation­al soci­ety TRAC are respond­ing to assist with com­mu­ni­ca­tions in the area.
There are some fre­quen­cies in use on HF, cur­rent­ly used to link with Gov­ern­ment resources and this is mean­ing that some fre­quen­cies out­side the ama­teur band­plan and nor­mal usage are being used until more equip­ment gets to the region. When this hap­pens, more traf­fic should move to the nor­mal Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Cen­tre of Activ­i­ty frequencies.
Please avoid caus­ing QRM to emer­gency traf­fic on 7.092 MHz USB. USB is being used to allow com­mu­ni­ca­tions with a gov­ern­ment station.
More infor­ma­tion will be post­ed on this web­site when it is avail­able from TRAC.
— Greg Mossop, G0DUB IARU Region 1 Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Co-Ordinator.