A team of 14 radio ama­teurs are now involved in emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tion net as Cyclone Nilo­far with its rain and wind approach­es the west coast of India out of the Ara­bi­an Sea.
Nation­al Coor­di­na­tor for Dis­as­ter Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Jayu Bhide VU2JAU says …

Ham oper­a­tors of Gujarat have respond­ed to requests from the Gov­ern­ment of Gujarat to set up their sta­tions as a pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure at Bhuj, Dwari­ka, Por­ban­dar and Rajkot. 

This is ahead of Cyclone Nilo­far fore­cast to land in the coastal …

Ham radio and oth­er prepa­ra­tions includ­ing evac­u­a­tions are being made for Cyclone Nilo­far, like­ly to move towards the Gujarat state coast in the next 48 hours. 

Local author­i­ties are mon­i­tor­ing the sit­u­a­tion and have been advised to keep their con­trol rooms …

Real­ism was added to Exer­cise Mag­gie by only releas­ing the details to the State Emer­gency Ser­vice and embed­ded radio ama­teurs at a very late stage, so it sim­u­lat­ed a call-out of volunteers.
The sce­nario on the week­end of Octo­ber 25 …

The Hur­ri­cane Watch Net has been acti­vat­ed for Hur­ri­cane Gon­za­lo cur­rent­ly at sea in the Caribbean and expect­ed to reach the British and US Vir­gin Islands. 

The net is using 14.325 MHz and 7.268 MHz. Please keep those fre­quen­cies clear. 

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