Salvation Army HAM radio operators are helping to establish communication in tsunami-hit regions.

RADIO: AMATEUR :
EARTHQUAKE: SOUTH ASIA: DECEMBER 2004:
DISASTERS: RESOURCES:
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Radio Operators Assist
HEATHER MOYER
BALTIMORE (December 27, 2004)
Salvation Army radio operators are helping to establish communication
in tsunami-hit regions.
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The Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (SATERN) is a HAM
radio team that can help families and emergency workers find each
other when a disaster wipes out all other forms of communication.

According to Major Pat McPherson, national director of SATERN,
representatives from the Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Response
Association (DERA) have requested SATERN's help in listening to
certain frequencies for missing Indian HAM radio operators in the
tsunami-affected islands between India and Sumatra.

"If we can help effectively, we will," said McPherson. And so far
they have. McPherson noted that several SATERN members have reported
contact from these missing members of the National Institute for
Amateur Radio India (NAIR) from these hard hit regions. This contact
is crucial in order
to establish communication routes for these areas. Information about
the extent of the damage is important as well.

One of the operators recently spoken to is even a SATERN volunteer
who was doing work with NAIR on one of the islands when the tsunamis
hit.

McPherson added that anyone seeking information about a missing
relative in the tsunami-affected areas across south Asia can fill out
the request form available on the SATERN Web site. "We will give it
our best shot."

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