Michael Black wrote:
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010, Engineer wrote:

Does anyone have any reports of radio amateurs being involved in the
Haiti disaster relief?
On a related point, we've heard very little in the media about radio
being used in relief communications - it's been all about no wired
phones, little or no internet, few cellphone towers, some twitter use,
facebook groups, etc... where's the good, old fashioned analog radio?
Cheers,i
Roger

They don't use "good old fashioned analog radios".

They go over to .equipment or one of the other newsgroups related to
operating, because nobody would be using boatanchors for emergency
communication at this point. Too big at the very least, use up too much
power, lacking in capability.

Now, if you want to talk about WERS back in WWII, or other early use of
radio for emergency, then this is likely the right place. Otherwise,
it belongs elsewhere, and there are plenty of newsgroups for that.

Michael VE2BVW

When we had H'cane Marilyn+Luis simultaneously hitting Anguilla in 1995
the Cable&Wireless guy showed up with a sat phone in a briefcase. He
plugged in the exchange and whammo...we had outside contact again.

Granted Anguilla is a small place but also granted that was 15 years
ago. I'm sure the communications guys are getting Haiti plugged back
into the world although local distribution suffers.

Some of the first reports I read were from a 'twitterer' outside of the
city using a Blackberry. The ham freqs are very quiet.

Its a new world, isn't it?

-Bill