The following update was received from Greg Mossop, IARU Region 1 Emergency Communications Co-Ordinator.
Some status reports are now coming from Haiti but at the moment , no
data regarding survivors or any other ‘Health and Welfare’ traffic is
currently being passed.
Anyone trying to trace family or friends in Haiti should register their
details with the International Federation of the Red Cross at;
http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/web/doc/siterfl0.nsf/htmlall/familylinks-haiti-eng?opendocument
The ICRC are co-operating with the Haitian Red Cross Society and other
Red Cross/ Red Crescent societies around the world to accelerate the
process of restoring contact between separated family members.
Further amateur radio support is on its way to the island, Victor Baez,
HI8VB, Secretary of the Radio Club Dominicano (RCD) reports that the RCD
with UDRA, Unión Dominicana de Radio Aficionados, are preparing to go to
Port au Prince early morning of Friday January 15 to install an
emergency radio Communications station, HI8RCD/HH, and a mobile station.
Victor has a blog which hopefully he will update with more news from
Haiti: www.hi8vb.tk
Some countries in Region 1 have activated their own stations to respond
to the disaster, Jari Perkiömäki, OH6BG has produced some propagation
predictions for 40m and 20m assuming the transmitter has an output power
of 10 watts (very low power) and a compromise antenna. On all receiver
sites on the map (there are hundreds of similar receivers in a grid), it
is assumed that there is an antenna whose gain is equivalent to that of
an 3-element Yagi and is 55 ft (appr. 17 meters) above the ground. His
predictions can be downloaded from;
http://www.voacap.com/hh.zip – 7Mhz propagation predictions
http://www.voacap.com/hh14b.zip – 14MHz propagation predictions
Alonso EA3EPH has produced an alternative MUF prediction available in
Spanish at;
http://www.ipellejero.es/remer/emercomms/Estudio_Circuitos_HF_desde_Puerto_Principe.pdf
Live feeds are available on the internet from receivers better placed in
Region 2 where any traffic can be monitored, these feeds are available
at http://bit.ly/69Mqbr
Tags: 2010, earthquake, Haiti