Turkey Earth­quake – Update 1
Radio Ama­teurs in Turkey remain active in the response to the earth­quake in Van province on 23rd October.
Assis­tance has been giv­en by TRAC in set­ting up VHF/UHF net­works to relief agen­cies and some traf­fic is also being car­ried on the 144MHz band. Red Cres­cent, the Min­istry of Health, local law enforce­ment agen­cies and the local com­mand cen­tre have been served so far.
The need for HF oper­a­tions is reduc­ing, how­ev­er there is still a gov­ern­ment sta­tion which may oper­ate on 7.092MHz USB. Ama­teurs are still request­ed to be care­ful when oper­at­ing between 7.092 and 7.095MHz to avoid inter­fer­ence to the ongo­ing relief operations.
— Greg Mossop, G0DUB IARU Region 1 Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Co-Ordinator: