Some ham radio activity from Haiti is beginning to be heard, following yesterday's devastating earthquake.

Father John Henault, HH6JH, in Port-au-Prince, made contact late Wednesday morning with the Intercontinental Assistance and Traffic Net (IATN) on 14.300 MHz, the IARU Global Centre of Activity frequency for emergency communications.

Message RCVD via a yahoo news group and posted on VA3QV blog (http://va3qv.wordpress.com)

—– Original Message —–
From: NA9L Vernon
To: NTS-9RN ; NTS-ITN@yahoogroups .com
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 7:58 PM
Subject: [NTS-9RN] SATERN EMG NET UP

All Region 9 stations and others

SATERN has a emergency net up for aid to HAITI (HH# CALL SIGN) freq 39777
Please monitor for any help you can give. Very weak here at this time. 7:56pm indy time.

Vernon Austermiller NA9L
American Radio Relay League
Net Manager Region 9 cycle 1 & 2

For Information on Haiti Earthquake and Disaster Management Frequency Read

• Haiti Earthquake Amateur Radio Update

From the CQ / WorldRadio Online Newsroom:

All radio amateurs are requested to keep 7045 kHz and 3720 kHz clear for possible emergency traffic related to today’s major earthquake in Haiti.

International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region II Area C Emergency Coordinator Arnie Coro, CO2KK, reports that as of 0245 UTC on January 13, nothing had been heard from radio amateurs in Haiti, but that the above frequencies were being kept active in case any Haitian hams manage to get on the air, and in case of other related events in surrounding areas, including aftershocks and a possible tsunami.

Sunday Dec 20th 2009 witnessed a Simplex VHF Activity for disaster management in Delhi and NCR Region. It all started with the proposal by VU2OEC OM Rajesh Chandwani (Regional Coordinator - ARSI) to do a mock drill in case repeater stops to function in NCR and how hams can effectively communicate with each other during any real event in the simplex mode.