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· Emergency Comms Following the fatal earthquake in Venezuela on Wednesday at 5:04 PM local time (10:04 PM UTC), local radio amateurs have asked that that all amateur radio colleagues in the Americas and the rest of the world protect the following frequency used by Venezuelan amateur radio operators:
40 m: 7135 kHz.
Domingo L. Hernández Lima, YV5IZE, director of the Venezuelan Radio Club’s National Emergency Network reports that a large part of the capital is without electricity and communication systems are operating on battery power. They were already activating their emergency shortwave (HF) frequency and also using digital frequencies and communication modes.
At the same time, the emergency communications coordinators of amateur radio operators from Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and other countries in the region, as well as members of the Board of Directors of the International Amateur Radio Union Region 2 (IARU R2), remain on standby to provide any assistance that may be needed.
Information received from Carlos Alberto Santamaría González, CO2JC, Emergency Communications Coordinator, IARU R2.
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2026-05-08 - Again for Israel, Palestine (Gaza and the West Bank) and Lebanon, Google AI reveals the following information. Again keep in mind that radio transmissions can be subjected to direction-finding and the transmitting station could be targeted:
Read more: QSOs with Stations in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon
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2026-05-08 - Amateurs making contacts (QSOs) with stations in Iran should exercise caution due to ongoing hostilities between Iran, Israel and the United States. Remember that their stations can be subjected to direction-finding and targeted. So a contact, like for Ukraine, could place the Iranian station in real danger. The following is what Google AI reveals (but strangely it does not urge caution and safety):
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IARU 2026-04-29 - On April 21st, 2026, the FCC granted AST Space Mobile permission to conduct emergency Telemetry, Tracking & Control (TT&C) operations outside the United States in the 430–440 MHz amateur radio band for all their planned 248 satellites. More than 2,500 comments were submitted by ARRL, AMSAT, other IARU societies and individual radio operators during the FCC review period. The license allows emergency operations when no other bands are available for up to 24 hours on the center frequencies of 430.5 MHz, 432.3 MHz, 434.1 MHz, 435.9 MHz, and 439.5 MHz (each with 50 kHz bandwidth), and was granted by the FCC pursuant to Article 4.4 of the ITU Radio Regulations.
Read more: FCC Approves AST Space Mobile's License for Operations in 430–440 MHz
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2026-05-09 - The Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society is re-activating the weekly VHF net on VE8YK/R (146.940 MHz with -600 kHz offset with a 100 Hz sub-audible tone). It should be accessible from VE8RAE/R (145.150 MHz with -600 kHz offset) based in Behchokǫ̀ (formerly Rae). All amateur radio operators are welcome to check in. This is part of our emergency preparedness in that it amounts to a weekly test of the repeater systems and gets local HAMs checking their own equipment. As check-ins become more regular, we can rotate net control.
If there is interest in running a CW net, please let Chris Cameron (VE8WD) or Ian Rennie (VE8IR) know.
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Individual amateur radio operators can be identified from the ISED Callsign Database: https://apc-cap.ic.gc.ca/pls/apc_anon/query_amat_cs$callsign.querylist .
- Behchokǫ̀
- Fort Smith
- Hay River
- Inuvik
- Norman Wells
- Yellowknife
- VE8ECC (VE8PR)
- VE8EMG (Unknown Club/VE8PR)
- VE8EMO (GNWT MACA Emergency Management Office/VE8WD)
- VE8PAT (Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society/St. Patrick's High School/VE8WD)
- VE8SKI (Yellowknife Ski Club/VE8WD) Weather Telemetry Station
- VE8YK (Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society/VE8WD)