Ital­ian Earth­quake – update
Two addi­tion­al earth­quakes have struck Italy this after­noon. At the moment there are around 15 deaths reported.
Fol­low­ing a request from the Ital­ian Civ­il Pro­tec­tion depart­ment RNRE have imme­di­ate­ly sent one Mobile Unit with 5 radioa­ma­teurs to the area and two more units are ready to go when requested.
The HF fre­quen­cy 7060kHz is in use by IQ1HQ (head­quar­ter RNRE) and IQ0TK. (Civ­il Pro­tec­tion Depart­ment in Rome). VHF links are cur­rent­ly on 145.200MHz.
— Greg Mossop, G0DUB IARU Region 1 Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Co-Ordinator.