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RESCUE RADIO: HAMS RESPOND TO MASSIVE INDIA POWER FAILURE
Back here on planet Earth, ham radio was called out after
the world's worst blackout in recent times cut power to 700
million people in India on July 31st.
Jayu Bhide VU2JAU is the National Coordinator for Disaster
Communication in India. He reports that the North-East grid
failed due to a fault in the plant and 20 states were
affected by the power failure.
VA2JAU said that hams in and around the affected areas
provided emergency communications during the outage. He
noted that all voice repeaters in the areas hit by the
blackout remained in operation despite the heavy duty back-
up power that was required.
Up to 20 of India's 28 states were plunged into darkness as
suppliers failed to meet the growing demand caused by heavy
demands. The blackout halted hundreds of trains, took out
traffic lights were out and caused surgical procedures to be
cancelled. Several miners were trapped underground when
their elevators failed. The blackout raised concern about
India's infrastructure. (VK3PC, VU2JAU)
BT
RESCUE RADIO: GAREC 2012 PUTS OUT CALL FOR PAPERS
Delegates representing their amateur radio emergency
communications services, national societies or clubs are
being invited to submit proposals information papers and
reports. This for the 8th Global Amateur Radio Emergency
Conference or GAREC which will be held November, 12 to
14th in Port Dickson, Malaysia.
Of primary interest will be information regarding the
activities of any given group in regard to any emergency or
disaster relief operations that it may have actively
participated in from September of 2011 onwards.
The closing deadline of submission to the GAREC Secretariat
is this coming September 31st. Documents should be
submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format to
secretariat (at) mygarec2012 (dot) com. (IARU)
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