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From : Daryl Stout
Date : Fri Oct 07 2016 10:46 am
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2032, Friday, Oct. 7, 2016
Amateur Radio Newsline Report Number 2032, with a release date of Friday,
Oct. 7, 2016, to follow in 5-4-3-2-1.
The following is a QST. Team USA wins big in an international
direction-finding contest. New York State's getting ready to party --
and our top story for this week, special reports on Hurricane Matthew
and the Colorado wildfires. All this and more, as Amateur Radio Newsline's
Report #2032 comes your way right now.
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AMATEUR RADIO RESPONDS TO HURRICANE MATTHEW
PAUL/ANCHOR: We open this week's newscast with team coverage in a special
report, as amateur radio responds to Hurricane Matthew's deadly sweep up
from the Caribbean, where the death toll surpassed 100 by Thursday, Oct. 6.
We hear from Amateur Radio Newsline's Kent Peterson, KC0DGY, and Bobby
Best, WX4ALA. We hear first from Kent Peterson:
KENT's REPORT:
NATs: (AUDIO) "This is whiskey three echo November kilo for the hurricane
watch net. This is a directed net. Are there any stations from within the
affected area of hurricane Matthew who wish to check into the net, come
now please, over"
KENT: The Amateur Radio Hurricane Watch Net is active as Hurricane Matthew
moves towards the United States. This large and dangerous hurricane,
which has produced sustained winds of 145 miles per hour, along with very
heavy rains, as it passed the Caribbean nations.
BOBBY GRAVES: Ham radio is about the only way we can make contact with
Haiti right now.
KENT: That's Bobby Graves, KB5HAV, the coordinator of the Hurricane Watch
Net.
GRAVES: The Western end of Haiti got slammed hard. Maximum sustained winds
at 145 mph. A lot of folks were trying to get evacuated when the area
started to flood. It's really churning up the waters quite a bit.
KENT: Graves says they have around 40 net control hams, some are fully
bilingual to help with the Spanish-speaking countries in the Caribbean.
GRAVES: We operate 24/7 until no longer needed. Right now, we're planning
way ahead. We don't know where it's going to make landfall yet. We have a
lot of good members, with our organization highly trained, and they do a
great job with what they do.
KENT: The Hurricane Watch Net operates on 14.325 MHz during daylight hours,
and on 7.268 at night. The net also provides backup communications to
various emergency agencies, and the Red Cross.
This will be a continuing story, as damages from Hurricane Matthew are
assessed. Amateur Radio Newsline will continue to follow this story. I'm
Kent Peterson, KC0DGY, and now, for the very latest hurricane weather
information here's Newsline's Bobby Best, WX4ALA.
BOBBY'S REPORT:
With Hurricane Matthew bearing down on the United States, after driving a
path through Haiti, eastern Cuba, and the 700 odd islands of the Bahamas,
where multiple deaths have been reported, hundreds of thousands are in
shelters, and it's assumed unknown numbers may be in need of rescue,
amateur radio operators in the U.S. are deployed.
Florida hams, based out of the state EOC in Tallahassee, are in direct
contact via HF with county EOCs on the primary south Florida ARES
frequency of 3.940 Mhz, with the north Florida ARES frequency of 3.950
Mhz, and 7.254 Mhz, also being used. More locally in predicted impact
regions, hams are manning stations from emergency shelters and hospitals,
to assist with the evacuation of some coastal hospitals, to inland
locations, as occurred during Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Florida, along with parts of coastal Georgia, South Carolina, and North
Carolina, were placed under states of emergency, along with orders to
evacuate issued! Plus, Florida Governor Rick Scott has requested that The
White House declare Florida a Federal Disaster Area ahead of Matthew to
free up federal funding that will be needed in its wake.
As of this recording, Thursday morning, Oct. 6, Matthew was moving across
Nassau, Bahamas. Matthew is predicted to make landfall just north of West
Palm Beach, Florida as a Category 4 Hurricane, and then skirt the East
Coast, moving northward, where as of this recording, Matthew is predicted
to take a swift east, southeast turn out to sea, near the South Carolina/
North Carolina border.
Back on the areas of Hispaniola, radio reports out of this region,
especially Haiti and The Dominican Republic, have been slow to come.
Media reports slowly started to come out of this region late Wednesday,
and early Thursday. It's unclear, as of this recording, what assistance
from hams this region may or may not need in the future. Stay with ARN,
particularly on our social media page at: ARNewline on Facebook, where we
can update news daily!
For Amateur Radio Newsline, I'm Bobby Best; WX4ALA.
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