24Jan/103
Haiti Earthquake Report Via Amateur Radio
I found this online and thought it would be nice to share. It's great to see such good use of amateur radio in a disaster. The emotions and reality of the report via radio straight from Port-Au-Prince is gripping.
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January 24th, 2010 - 17:45
I did some monitoring of the various nets and was rather disturbed by what I heard. At least 75% and more likely close to 90% of the time was taken up with people asking for traffic from Haiti, checking in, getting signal reports from each other and TUNING! There was even people fighting over who should be net control. From what I heard though, the MARS nets were much more useful, what I primarily attribute to the operators acting more professional.
I do agree that it is nice to see everyone stepping up and willing to help, but people need to keep their eagerness in check.
January 24th, 2010 - 23:03
Could anyone decode the co-channel CW in the recording? If this was on Maritime Mobile Svc Net then the CW op shouldn’t have been on a phone band.
January 25th, 2010 - 12:09
Thanks for the comment Ethan, and yes tuning is very inappropriate. At best simply move off frequency to tune, ID, then move back. David W6DTW, thanks for reading! If I get a chance I’ll listen to the cw and see what I find.