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Earthquake and Tsunami New Zealand

Discussion in 'Amateur Radio News' started by 4L5A, Nov 13, 2016.

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  1. F8BDX

    F8BDX Ham Member QRZ Page

    my thoughts are with our ZL friends and their families.
    Jose
     
  2. ZL1GBG

    ZL1GBG Ham Member QRZ Page

    Yes, there is widespread damage... very severe in places, whole hillsides have detached and crumbled, one damming a river before it then let go causing even more flooding problems. State Highway 1 is destroyed in places, as is the rail network. The location of the epicentre, and its remoteness has been the saving grace of ZL land. Thoughts go out to everyone in the damage zone.

    73 de Adrian.
    ZL1GBG
     
  3. KT1F

    KT1F Ham Member QRZ Page

    Was there really any official use of 14,300? I can't imagine why they would use 20m considering that they'd want to talk to places like Wellington and Christchurch. 20m is pretty much useless within NZ. Many years ago when I was newly licensed in ZL and participated in "AREC field day", most of the traffic was on 80m with the "long haul" relay traffic on 40m. I think the main calling channel was 3900 USB.

    I don't know if ham radio was involved in this event. It certainly would have been useful early on because there were communication problems to the worst affected areas but phone and cellular systems were restored pretty quickly.
     
  4. AA1PR

    AA1PR Ham Member QRZ Page

    My prayers go out to them
     
  5. W7ARX

    W7ARX Guest

    Be safe and hope things start to normalize shortly...we are thinking and praying for you...
     
  6. KM4D

    KM4D Guest

    God Bless our brothers, sisters and their families. Our prayers are with you!
     
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  7. EI7IP

    EI7IP Ham Member QRZ Page

    sorry to hear about the earthquake in zl land from the peopli in ireland ei7ip
     
  8. KX1G

    KX1G Ham Member QRZ Page

    Tsunami center (Tsunami.com) reporting there was minimal to no tsunami thankfully. Of course local reports are needed to confirm this.
     
  9. KM1H

    KM1H Ham Member QRZ Page

    While initial warnings were for 3-4 m local reports have been all in the 0-2m range with no property damages as yet, this does not include the sparsely populated Chatham Islands about 400 miles off the East Coast where no reporting appears on line.

    Carl
     
  10. W6GAK

    W6GAK Ham Member QRZ Page

    Hang in there KIWI =============
     
  11. KF4HR

    KF4HR XML Subscriber QRZ Page

    It can be tough keeping 14.300 clear in an emergency under normal conditions. Hopefully an earthquake and Tsunami never coincide with a contest weekend.
     
  12. KT1F

    KT1F Ham Member QRZ Page

    14.300 MHz was not used in this event. I don't know where that idea came from. I suspect that a ZL checked in to the marine net and that somehow morphed into "14.300 is being used for the earthquake". Trying to use 20m within NZ makes no sense at all.

    Here's NZART's latest newsletter. http://www.nzart.org.nz/assets/infoline/2016/NZART-HQ-Infoline-Issue-347.pdf

    There was no official amateur radio involvement. Help was offered by AREC (NZ equivalent to ARES) but not required because normal communications were operating or restored quickly. There was some good work by some individual operators. It was all on a VHF repeater.
     

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