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"Force of 50" Steps Up to Assist Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico
Amateur Radio Volunteers Filling Communication Gap in the Caribbean
Amateur Radio Reports: Arecibo Observatory Dish Sustained Serious
Damage from Maria
The Doctor Will See You Now!
Round-the-World Flyer Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN, Spearheading Dominica
Airlift
Ohio Radio Amateurs Support Annual Air Force Marathon
Past QCWA General Manager, Former ARRL Staffer Jim LaPorta, N1CC, SK
The K7RA Solar Update
Just Ahead in Radiosport
Upcoming ARRL Section, State, and Division Conventions
visory: Requests for Information from the Public and the Press
Many individuals have loved ones in Puerto Rico, and they are
understandably hopeful that Amateur Radio operators can relay messages
to them. As a result, some are contacting amateurs with requests to
pass message traffic to the island.
At the same time, individual amateurs and clubs have reported that
local media representatives have contacted them to request information
about Amateur Radio involvement in Puerto Rico. This likely will
increase as word spreads in the national media about our activities.
For inquiries from the public, ARRL advises that these individuals be
informed that amateurs traveling to Puerto Rico to support the
American Red Cross effort will be tasked with handling outbound
traffic only. Members of the public concerned about family and friends
in Puerto Rico should access the American Red Cross Safe and Well
Website. Status information from friends and relatives in Puerto Rico
will be entered into the system as it arrives from amateurs stationed
there.
For media inquiries, please ask reporters to contact ARRL directly. A
system has been established at ARRL Headquarters to respond to media
inquiries in a timely and accurate manner.
"Force of 50" Steps Up to Assist Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico
Members of the Amateur Radio community have volunteered to assist in
the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto
Rico and Dominica and, to a lesser extent, the US Virgin Islands. This
week, 50 of the most accomplished US radio amateurs responded within
24 hours to a call from the American Red Cross (ARC) to deploy to
Puerto Rico and provide emergency communications assistance there. At
the ARC's request, ARRL rallied the US Amateur Radio community to
provide up to 25 two-person teams of highly qualified hams. ARRL CEO
Tom Gallagher, NY2RF, said that more than 350 answered the call, from
nearly every state.
"This generous outpouring of response represents the finest qualities
of the Amateur Radio community," he said. "These individuals are
dropping whatever they are doing now, heading off to an extended
hardship-duty assignment, and offering their special talents to
Americans who have been cut off from their families, living amid
widespread destruction and without electrical power since Hurricane
Maria struck the Caribbean region last week."
The group's principal mission will be to move health-and-welfare
information from the island back to the US mainland, where that data
will be entered in the Red Cross Safe and Well system. The Salvation
Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) has been asked to assist
these operators when they check in with tactical, health-and-welfare
(H&W), and Safe and Well messages.
SATERN and other active nets are not accepting incoming H&W inquiries.
The Caribbean Emergency and Weather Net (CEWN) is taking incoming H&W
inquiries via e-mail for Dominica. The Puerto Rico Federal Affairs
ministration (PRFAA) is taking inquiries (only one per sender) via
e-mail for Puerto Rico. Inquiries should include the full name and
location of both the sender and the individual(s) being sought and the
sender's e-mail address.
Denis Santiago, WP4KJJ (right), and Raul Gonzalez, KP4RGD, organized
the communication network in Puerto Rico and operate the station at
American Red Cross's temporary San Juan headquarters, "with a great
number of hams who left their families to help Puerto Rico to
recover," ARRL Puerto Rico Section Manager Oscar Resto, KP4RF, told
ARRL.
The group will be in Puerto Rico for up to 3 weeks. ARRL has equipped
each team with an HF transceiver, software, a dipole antenna, a power
supply and all connecting cables, fitted in a rugged waterproof
container. In an unprecedented and crucial move, the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) agreed to help get the Ham Aid gear to Puerto
Rico.
The League also is sending two VHF repeaters, a dozen hand-held
transceivers, five mobile radios, what Gallagher described as "5 cubic
feet of batteries," a number of small 2-kW portable generators, and
solar-powered battery chargers. The hams and their equipment will be
sent to Red Cross shelters extending from San Juan to the western end
of the island.
In addition, ARRL has committed to purchasing up to $50,000 worth of
new Ham Aid gear for this and for future emergencies.
Ham Aid kits are packed and ready for shipping at ARRL Headquarters.
ARRL's Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Corey, KI1U, said this was
the first time in the nearly 75-year relationship between ARRL and the
ARC that such a request for assistance had been made. "Hurricane Maria
has devastated the island's communications infrastructure," Corey
said. "Without electricity and telephone, and with most of the cell
sites out of service, millions of Americans are cut off from
communicating. Shelters are unable to reach local emergency services.
And, people cannot check on the welfare of their loved ones. The
situation is dire."
The Yasme Foundation announced this week that it has made a grant to
ARRL's Ham Aid fund, in support of the Amateur Radio response to the
recent hurricanes in the US and Caribbean. The Ham Aid fund was
created in 2005 in response to the need for equipment and resources to
support the Amateur Radio response to hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and
Wilma.
A September 27 CNN report documented the personal impact of the storm
on Puerto Rico and Amateur Radio's role in the recovery.
How You Can Help
ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, has asked for contributions to
ARRL's Ham Aid fund. "Equipment has been flying out the door since
Hurricane Harvey struck the US mainland," he emphasized. "From meeting
requirements in aid of Hurricane Irma victims in the US Virgin Islands
and Florida, our store of Ham Aid kits has been depleted."
ARRL's Ham Aid program loans Amateur Radio equipment kits to
established Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES®) groups and partner
agencies during disaster responses, in order to establish Amateur
Radio communication support. Ham Aid is supported by donations from
individuals and corporations, including many of our ham radio industry
partners.
ARRL has previously staged Ham Aid equipment in Texas as well as
supplied kits to Florida, the US Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. With
the Ham Aid inventory depleted, donations are needed now.
Contributions to Ham Aid are 100% tax deductible. To donate online,
select "Ham Aid" from the ARRL donation form. To donate by mail, print
a donation form, and mail it with your check payable to ARRL, noting
"Ham Aid" on the memo line of your check. Mail to ARRL, 225 Main St.,
Newington, CT 06111 USA.
Amateur Radio Volunteers Filling Communication Gap in the Caribbean
Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands both suffered substantial damage
from Hurricane Maria, although Puerto Rico took the bigger hit, and it
is there that Amateur Radio has been filling a huge telecommunications
gap. The FCC said at mid-week that 91% of cell telephone sites were
still out in Puerto Rico. In the US Virgin Islands, the figure is
about 60%.
ARRL Puerto Rico Section Manager Oscar Resto, KP4RF, with an
unidentified ARC volunteer. [Photo courtesy of Oscar Resto, KP4RF]
"The situation in Puerto Rico is very devastating across all the
island," Puerto Rico SM Oscar Resto, KP4RF, said over the weekend.
"Communications via land phone or mobiles are almost nil." Repeaters
are down, he said, and hams have been using the 2-meter simplex
frequency of 146.52 MHz, although he hoped to see some repeaters come
back on line (the 448.225 repeater in Bayamon has been online,
handling health-and-welfare traffic).
With police repeaters also down, law enforcement has been using 2
meters as well.
American Red Cross Headquarters suffered the loss of its emergency
generator due to flooding. A temporary ARC headquarters has internet
and cell service, he said.
Red Cross volunteers have been busy assisting those affected by
Hurricane Maria. [ARC photo]
Resto said radio amateurs have also been assisting Puerto Rico's
Electric Power Authority (Autoridad de Energía Eléctrica) using 146.52
MHz to dispatch line crews and coordinate fuel deliveries for the
authority's offices at the Monacillo Control Center and at several
power plants. "The power system is fully shut down for all the
island," he said. Drinking water and proper sanitation facilities are
also in very short supply. Resto said Puerto Rico needs
"everything...solar panels, repeaters, and most important,
transmission lines and antennas. Some base or mobile VHF/UHF radios, a
1- to 2-kW power generator." Fuel for generators as well as vehicles
is still in short supply on Puerto Rico.
Radio amateurs in Puerto Rico have been operating brisk and busy ad
hoc health-and-welfare traffic nets on 7.175 and 14.270 MHz, as has
the Salvation Army Team Emergency Network (SATERN) on 14.265 MHz.
Gerry Hull, W1VE, reported that the net on 14.270 MHz has handled
thousands of messages in the past week. Hull has also been active on
the SATERN net. Today will mark Day 11 of the Hurricane Maria
activation for SATERN, surpassing the 8-day SATERN operation for
Hurricane Irma and making it the longest activation since Hurricane
Katrina in 2005.
"Calls to family are very emotional," he told ARRL. "I am getting all
kinds of calls day and night for people desperate to hear about family
in Puerto Rico, but hams cannot provide inbound traffic." He directs
them to the Red Cross website. "Lots of contesters are helping with
their big stations," he said.
ARRL USVI Section Manager Fred Kleber, K9VV.
US Virgin Islands Section Manager Fred Kleber, K9VV, said the USVI are
in much better shape than Puerto Rico. "They really got slammed hard,"
he said. Kleber said he still has antennas that were not destroyed by
the storm and that he can hit Puerto Rico on 2 meters from his
location. He also plans to deploy some 20 mesh wireless network nodes
to provide connectivity between key USVI government locations. "We
have used every trick in our comms bag of tricks to make stuff work,"
he said.
Kleber said pictures in the news and social media don't do justice to
the wholesale devastation in parts of the Caribbean. In the USVI, he
said, trees, power poles, transformers, and telephone lines were
downed all over, and debris blocking roadways is making travel slow or
altogther impossible. He and others have been staffing the emergency
communications center 24/7.
The Caribbean Emergency and Weather Net (CEWN) on 7.188 and 3.815 MHz
has focused its attention on the situation on Dominica.
"Truly I think that the regional agencies were not ready for a
calamity of this magnitude," Kumar Persaud, J85K, one of the CEWN net
controllers said last weekend. "The CEWN operators have ended up
filling the communications gap for the agencies, without any prior
briefing."
Some of the hurricane damage on Dominica. [Caribbean Disaster
Emergency Management Agency photo]
The net has been dealing with a tremendous volume of traffic for
Dominica and Puerto Rico, with a handful of stations handling
emergency and priority communications for a million or more people.
ARRL Santa Barbara Section Technical visor Ben Kuo, AI6YR -- who has
been keeping a close ear on the situation in the Caribbean -- said
hams on St. Lucia and Dominica and from outside the region coordinated
the landing of emergency relief vessels from Barbuda and advised
rescue groups on logistics. Amateur Radio also has provided a path for
government communication on Dominica, where conditions are starting to
improve.
There's more information on the Amateur Radio response on the
Hurricane Maria-Dominica Amateur Radio Communications (DARCI) Facebook
page. National Public Radio (NPR) highlighted the role of Amateur
Radio in the Dominica response in a September 21 story.
Amateur Radio Reports: Arecibo Observatory Dish Sustained Serious
Damage from Maria
Articles on the National Geographic and Space.com websites last
weekend cited Amateur Radio reports that Puerto Rico's Arecibo
Observatory came through Hurricane Maria largely intact but "with some
significant damage." Universities Space Research Association (USRA),
which helps to operate the Observatory, said it learned via "short
wave radio contact" that staff and family members sheltering at
Arecibo are safe.
The famous Arecibo Observatory dish.
"The major structures, including the 300-meter telescope, are intact,
though suffered some damage when the atmospheric radar line feed broke
off, and falling debris from it punctured the dish in several places,"
USRA reported on its website. "Also, a separate 12-meter dish used as
a phase reference for Very Long Baseline Interferometry was lost."
Observatory officials are still assessing the damage, but Jim
Breakall, WA3FET, of Penn State University, told ARRL that the 96-foot
line feed antenna at 430 MHz is "historically the key piece to the
observatory." It's also the antenna that he and others have used for
Amateur Radio moonbounce activities from Arecibo. The Observatory is
home to KP4AO.
"To hear that this 10,000-pound key piece to the Observatory fell and
hit the 1,000-meter dish is just a huge shock," Breakall said last
Saturday. "This antenna was connected to the 2.5 million W 430-MHz
radar transmitter that was a key to ionospheric experiments. It is a
great loss for sure."
Angel Vazquez, WP3R, who manages radio telescope operations at the
Observatory, was one of the only radio amateurs able to pass along any
information; among those he contacted was Princeton University
professor and Nobel Laureate Joe Taylor, K1JT. Vazquez was using a
generator that, Breakall told ARRL, was not working very well. "Many
others have heard about all of this and have come to help relay
messages to loved ones and friends to let people know they are okay,"
Breakall added.
The line feed antenna can be seen pointing downward from the overhead
array of equipment.
Breakall said he's less concerned to learn that his own Amateur Radio
contest station, on a hill not far from the Observatory, was destroyed
by Hurricane Maria. "While this is sad for me and others, my concern
is with the safety and health of many friends and the people of Puerto
Rico in General," he said. This is my second home, and many of the
people there I treat as my brothers and sisters."
USRA reported last weekend that the access road to the Observatory was
covered with debris and impassable.
Breakall told ARRL that he's worried about what might happen in the
weeks and months ahead. "I just hope that desperation does not set in,
and things get out of hand there," he said. "It is going to be very
tough."
The Doctor Will See You Now!
"Soldering and Unsoldering" is the topic of the latest episode of the
"ARRL The Doctor is In" podcast. Listen...and learn!
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discussion of all things technical. Listen on your computer, tablet,
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Every 2 weeks, your host, QST Editor-in-Chief Steve Ford, WB8IMY, and
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Round-the-World Flyer Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN, Spearheading Dominica
Airlift
Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN, the Texas aviator who recently circumnavigated
the globe following Amelia Earhart's path, is spearheading "Dominica
Airlift -- Angels to Eden" to aid residents of the storm-stricken
Caribbean island nation. A category 5 Hurricane Maria slammed into
Dominica on September 18, leaving the population of about 70,000
without power or viable telecommunications. In addition, it wrought
severe damage to homes and infrastructure, including the island's
port, but sparing at least one usable airstrip. The situation on
Dominica is said to be dire, with conditions that the Prime Minister,
Roosevelt Skerrit, described as "worse than in a war zone." Lloyd
learned this week, however, that the relief situation on Dominica is
improving.
"Our help is needed, but new information came in last night," Lloyd
said in a September 25 Facebook post. "We established contact with the
emergency operations center (EOC) on Dominica late last night. We now
know that the port is open again, and other relief materials are
starting to flow into Dominica."
But, he added, even with international relief from non-governmental
organizations (NGOs) starting to come in, the EOC asked Lloyd and his
airlift volunteers to come to Dominica to help.
"Our help is still needed! We can respond to special needs faster than
an NGO can once we are in-theater," Lloyd said.
Pilots with small aircraft are still needed. "We have lots of people
who want to donate supplies, but without the airlift going, the
supplies can't get to Dominica," Lloyd said over the weekend. He hoped
to arrive in Dominica on Thursday.
Brian Lloyd, WB6RQN (center, with back to camera), oversees the
loading of equipment on his airplane, Spirit.
Lloyd will take along portable satellite and HF radio gear to set up
communication. In addition, he has an HF transceiver on his plane,
Spirit, and is carrying a Micom 3 Fly Away HF radio with automatic
link establishment (ALE) capability, to use as a portable disaster
relief base station.
Ham radio volunteers living in areas having good signal propagation
into the Caribbean region are being asked to activate their home ALE
HF stations. A call went out at mid-week to ALE-equipped radio
amateurs in the Caribbean islands, eastern and southeast US, Central
America, and northern South America. The activation will support the
Dominica Airlift. Prospective volunteers are asked to e-mail HFLINK.
Volunteers will use the HFL (voice) and HFN (text/data/sounding)
channel sets, with 14,346.0, 7,296.0, and 5,371.5 kHz likely to be the
most active.
Lloyd has a donated Iridium satellite telephone plus a small generator
to power the communication equipment and to charge batteries. At least
two other pilots will assist. -- Thanks to Bonnie Crystal, KQ6XA, for
some information
Ohio Radio Amateurs Support Annual Air Force Marathon
When about 15,000 runners left the starting line at the Air Force
Marathon, Half Marathon, and 10K races, more than 65 Amateur Radio
volunteers were on hand in the Dayton, Ohio, area on September 16 to
help ensure their safety. The event starts and ends at the Air Force
Museum, and the course runs through Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
(WPAFB) and on the streets of Fairborn. Net control stations located
at the start/finish line near the National Museum of the US Air Force
directed a medical net on 70 centimeters and a logistics net on 2
meters. Hams also provided communication at the eight medical and 25
hydration stations positioned throughout the courses.
USAF Marathon Race Director Robert Aguiar said race officials consider
the Amateur Radio volunteers a vital resource and have come rely on
their professionalism and communication skills. He said it would be
extremely difficult, if not impossible, to have the race without
Amateur Radio-provided emergency, logistic, and medical communications
among the race director, his staff, the Wright-Patterson Air Force
Base (WPAFB) incident commander, and the hydration and medical
stations.
Air Force Marathon Amateur Radio Lead Volunteer David Crawford,
KF4KWW, thanked all the Amateur Radio volunteers, some of whom have
been turning out for the event for many years.
The DARA emergency communication van served as the command center.
From rear to front: Melissa Markland, KD8LZH; Shawna Collins, N2TUJ,
and Ron Cramer, KD8ENJ. [Photo courtesy of Dave Crawford, KF4KWW]
"Their support helped ensure another USAF Marathon that occurred
safely and met the runner's needs," he said. While most of his
volunteers were from the greater Dayton area, some came from as far
away as Michigan and Wisconsin. In addition to providing communication
to aid stations, Amateur Radio operators also served as "tail-end
Charlies" for the marathon and half marathon. Each had an APRS
transmitter, as did lead vehicles and selected runners, allowing race
officials and emergency services to have a more accurate picture of
how the race was progressing.
The Dayton Amateur Radio Association (DARA) emergency communication
van served as the command center for the race and net control for the
logistics net. The Xenia Weather Amateur Radio Network (XWARN)
communication trailer housed the medical net control. KF4KWW thanked
both groups for their support. -- Thanks to Henry Ruminski, W8HJR
Past QCWA General Manager, Former ARRL Staffer Jim LaPorta, N1CC, SK
James "Jim" LaPorta, N1CC, of Frankston, Texas, died on September 20.
He was 76. He was an ARRL and Quarter Century Wireless Association
(QCWA) Life Member. LaPorta served as QCWA General Manager from March
until December 2012.
First licensed in 1956 as KN6SXX, LaPorta joined the US Army after
high school and then went to work for the Army as a civilian in 1968
in Texas. While in Texas, he served a president of the Dallas Amateur
Radio Club (1970-1972) and was a member of the Richardson Wireless
Klub. He also presented ham radio classes, and one of his students was
Jim Haynie, W5JBP (SK), who later served as ARRL President.
Attending college full time in the evenings, LaPorta formed the
Amateur Radio Society at the University of Texas at Dallas. He
graduated in 1977, while working for the US Veterans ministration as
its campus representative.
In 1978 and 1979, LaPorta served on the ARRL Headquarters staff. Later
he was the Training Supervisor for Product Information at General
DataComm for 3 years, before starting a 17-year career with Motorola.
After retirement, he was an independent insurance representative.
LaPorta's first love was DX contesting, and during his active contest
years as K6SXX, WA0ISO, DL4LA, W5QGZ, and W5LA. He was the Single
Operator, Unlimited QRP mixed-mode winner of the 2016 IARU HF
Championship and made the Top 10 Single Operator list (QRP) list for
the 2016 ARRL November Sweepstakes (phone).
LaPorta also was very active during the ARRL Centennial QSO Party
event in 2014.
Survivors include his wife Linda, NE5LL. -- Thanks to QCWA President
Ken Oelke, VE6AFO
The K7RA Solar Update
Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: The past week was a good one for HF
propagation. Average daily sunspot numbers doubled from the previous
week, rising from 13.6 to 27, while average daily solar flux rose from
72.6 to 84.3. Average daily geomagnetic numbers were lower, with
average planetary A index declining from 21.1 to 9.9 and average daily
mid-latitude A index from 17.1 to 7.6. Last Friday was the autumnal
equinox, so we should see a seasonal improvement in HF conditions.
Predicted solar flux is 91 on September 28-October 1; 88 on October
2-4; 90, 95, 90, 85, 76, 75, 74, and 73 on October 5-12; 72 on October
12-15; 71, 74, 73, 78, 80, 87; and 90 on October 16-22; 95 on October
23-November 2; 90, 85, 76, 75, 74, and 73 on November 3-8, and 72 on
November 9-11.
Predicted planetary A index is 32, 26, 14, 12, and 6 on September
28-October 2; 5 on October 3-10; 25 on October 11-13; 20 and 15 on
October 14-15; 8 on October 16-17; 5 on October 18-21; 16, 8, 20, 25,
20, 10, and 8 on October 22-28; 5 on October 29-November 6; 25 on
November 7-9, and 20 and 15 on November 10-11.
Sunspot numbers for September 21-27, 2017 were 22, 22, 12, 22, 36, 40,
and 35, with a mean of 13.6. The 10.7-centimeter flux was 73, 77.5,
81.2, 86.9, 89.9, 90.7, and 91, with a mean of 72.6. Estimated
planetary A indices were 7, 5, 5, 6, 5, 4, and 37, with a mean of
21.1. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 7, 5, 4, 5, 5, 3, and 24,
with a mean of 17.1.
Send me your reports or observations.
Just Ahead in Radiosport
September 28 -- RSGB 80-Meter Autumn Series (Digital)
September 30 -- Feld Hell Sprint (Digital)
September 30-October 1 -- Russian WW MultiMode Contest (CW, phone,
digital)
September 30-October 1 -- UK/EI DX Contest, SSB
October 1 -- UBA ON Contest, SSB
October 1-4 -- Classic Exchange, Phone
October 1 -- Peanut Power QRP Sprint (CW, phone)
October 2 -- IQRP Quarterly Marathon (CW, phone, digital)
October 3 -- ARS Spartan Sprint (CW)
October 3 -- German Telegraphy Contest
October 4 -- 432 MHz Fall Sprint (CW, phone, digital)
October 4 -- UKEICC 80-Meter Contest (Phone)
October 5 -- SARL 80-Meter QSO Party (Phone)
October 5 -- NRAU 10-Meter Activity Contest (CW, phone, digital)
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September 30 -- North Dakota State Convention, West Fargo, North
Dakota
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Pennsylvania
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Carolina
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October 14 -- Pacific Northwest VHF Society Conference, Moses Lake,
Washington
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Wisconsin
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