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Venezuela Earthquake — 25th June 2026 Frequency clearance requested
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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.
Local Experiments with APRS
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[2026-06-06] VE8IR has very little experience with APRS (Automatic Position Reporting System) and Packet Radio. He recalls VE7NB experimenting with this in the late 1980s - at least packet radio. Some of the local amateur radio operators here in Yellowknife have been experimenting with it for some time and have set up various receiving stations (IGates) linking to the Internet. Digital packets concerning position reports, weather data or whatever telemetry is of interest are sent to these stations and read by other local radios directly or through the Internet.
QSOs with Stations in Ukraine
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2026-05-08 - This is old news but recently some of our members were asking about contacts (QSOs) with other amateur radio operators in Ukraine. Members (and amateur radio operators generally) are advised to read the response and adjust their operating practices accordingly. Spelling/typographical errors are left in deliberately. A quick Google AI query returned the following response.
Weekly YARS Net - Sundays 9 PM (Active Again)
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NOTE: Speak Slowly, Clearly, and into the microphone at all times.
QST, QST, QST.
This is <Name>, <Callsign>, serving as Net control for the Yellowknife Amateur Radio Society’s weekly information net. This net meets each Sunday evening at 9:00PM and is open to all amateur radio operators in the coverage area of the 146.940 MHz (-600 Hz offset) VE8YK Repeater with a subaudible tone of 100 Hz.
Before beginning the net tonight, if there are any stations with emergency or priority traffic, please call now.