[gcares] Fwd: [The Daily DX] vy urgent de charly

[Fred Stone W8LLY]

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This will serve as a reminder that during a Communications Emergency 
Situation, "incoming health & welfare traffic" is the lowest priority.  It 
is very difficult, if often not impossible, to find the people to whom 
messages are directed in a disaster area.  Hams should refer anyone 
requesting a ham to send messages INTO a disaster area to contact the Red 
Cross (or national hotlines if/when established) with such request.

Amateur radio's first priority will be EMERGENCY and Priority tactical 
traffic. OUTGOING [FROM the disaster area] Health & Welfare traffic may be 
handled on a secondary basis as the level of priority traffic subsides and 
as additional resources become available.

de W8LLY

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>From: W8ILC at aol.com
>Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 09:30:01 EST
>Subject: Fwd: [The Daily DX] vy urgent de charly
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>
>From: "Bernie McClenny" <bernie at dailydx.com>
>To: <dailydx at kkn.net>, "'The Weekly DX mailing List'" <weeklydx at kkn.net>
>Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 06:55:08 -0000
>Organization: The Daily DX
>Subject: [The Daily DX] vy urgent de charly
>
>
>Please pass this message to as many outlets as possible:
>
>QST:  Health and Welfare messages incoming to the huge affected area 
>present an equally huge problem.  All channels, including ham radio, are 
>or will be totally overwhelmed by potential INCOMING H&W traffic.  Thus, I 
>would suggest no incoming H&W traffic.  For something this size, it is 
>best for those in the area to send messages OUT only.  Even that, is 
>rather unlikely inside the truly and deeply damaged areas, and there are 
>many such areas.
>
>I can take messages for Andaman ONLY and because of the small size and the 
>fact that VU4NRO is active for maybe two more weeks there are the only 
>reasons I have a slight chance of getting replies from those Islands.  No 
>where else at all can I help.
>
>This wide spread disaster would require hundreds if not thousands of hams 
>deployed over the whole Indian Ocean rim to meet the H&W need.  Thus, 
>please take these facts into account when contemplating help to the 
>affected areas.
>
>Targeting one small area such as Colombo could be some help, but beware of 
>getting in the way of government and military activities, too.  Hams who 
>already live in the affected areas are on the air and doing their best to 
>help and maybe that is the best we can do for the present.
>
>This situation is very large and the suffering is likely to continue for 
>months.
>
>73,
>
>Charles Harpole
>k4vud at hotmail.com
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