이번 VU4 DXpedition의 helper(?)인 K4VUD가 2004년 12월 31일 자로 NJDXA에 보내온 e-mail 내용을 보면,
VU4RBI는 Port Blair에 있는 Sinclairs 호텔에서 비상통신을 계속하고있으나 DX 교신은 하지않고 있으며, Bharathi 여사는 원래의 계획대로 2005년 1월 1일 그곳을 떠날 예정이랍니다.
여타의 VU 운용자들은 거기에 남아서 비상통신을 계속 할 것이며, 추가의 VU OP들이 이들을 돕기위하여 조만간에 Andaman 으로 날라 올것이라는 군요.
VU4NRO의 1국은 가장 심한 피해를 입은 니코바르 섬에 파견되어있고, 다른 1 station은 Andaman에 있는 한 대학의 기숙사에서 비상통신을 수행하고 있답니다.
2004년 12월 31일 0400 Z (UTC) 경에 VU4NRO 국에서 14.190 +/-에서 SSTV를 통해서 그곳 모습을 송출하고 있으니 주파수를 맞추어 보라는 군요.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Harpole" <k4vud@hotmail.com>
To: <dx-news@njdxa.org>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 4:54 AM
Subject: [DX-NEWS] VU4 news Dec 31 0300 Z
> QST at 0300 Z on Dec 31
>
> 1. VU4RBI continues to operate from Port Blair Sinclairs Hotel with
> emergency messages, but no DX calls can now be taken. Bharathi is going
> to use her regularly scheduled departure ticked on its original date...
> the best way to get an airline seat...on Jan. 1, 2005.
>
> 2. Other VU operators will remain on the Islands and continue the
> emergency traffic for as long as it takes. More VU operators are
> traveling to Andaman to help out soon.
>
> 3. One of the VU4NRO stations is dispatched to one of the hardest hit
> NicobarIslands and is relaying out emergency traffic from that devastated
> place.
>
> 4. The other NRO station is again operational in the college dorm. They
> also are passing emergency traffic.
>
> 5. Around 0400 Z/UTC today Dec. 31, NRO will transmit slow scan TV
> pictures on 14.190 +-. These are photos from around the Islands and
> affected areas there. Any station is free to tune in and copy these TV
> pictures.
>
> 6. Let me again be clear about my status re VU4.... I served as a helper
> on this DXpedition and at all times tried to be sure it was an INDIA
> effort, not some foreigner's. That same fact prevailed as soon as the
> earthquake hit...that is, I helped and obverved, and took photos. It was
> clear from the time just after the quake onward that the INDIA hams had
> the situation completely handled and were immediately effective as
> emergency communicators. Further, these India operators speak the locaol
> languages, which I do not, further reason for me to only be an observer.
> I took my regularly scheduled air ticket date to depart Andaman... the
> only way I could get a ticket and reasoned that I could relay whatever
> Andaman traffic from my HS0ZCW station. That I did and continue to do.
>
> 7.Feel free to give my Thailand telephone number to anyone who wants it...
> 66-5-046-1922.
>
> Hams all over the affected area in multiple countries are stepping in and
> helping. It is a very gratifying international effort by hundreds of
> volunteer hams. I am proud of ham radio, again, today.
>
> Let us hope for a better New Year..... 73
>
> Charles Harpole
> k4vud@hotmail.com
VU4RBI는 Port Blair에 있는 Sinclairs 호텔에서 비상통신을 계속하고있으나 DX 교신은 하지않고 있으며, Bharathi 여사는 원래의 계획대로 2005년 1월 1일 그곳을 떠날 예정이랍니다.
여타의 VU 운용자들은 거기에 남아서 비상통신을 계속 할 것이며, 추가의 VU OP들이 이들을 돕기위하여 조만간에 Andaman 으로 날라 올것이라는 군요.
VU4NRO의 1국은 가장 심한 피해를 입은 니코바르 섬에 파견되어있고, 다른 1 station은 Andaman에 있는 한 대학의 기숙사에서 비상통신을 수행하고 있답니다.
2004년 12월 31일 0400 Z (UTC) 경에 VU4NRO 국에서 14.190 +/-에서 SSTV를 통해서 그곳 모습을 송출하고 있으니 주파수를 맞추어 보라는 군요.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Harpole" <k4vud@hotmail.com>
To: <dx-news@njdxa.org>
Sent: Friday, December 31, 2004 4:54 AM
Subject: [DX-NEWS] VU4 news Dec 31 0300 Z
> QST at 0300 Z on Dec 31
>
> 1. VU4RBI continues to operate from Port Blair Sinclairs Hotel with
> emergency messages, but no DX calls can now be taken. Bharathi is going
> to use her regularly scheduled departure ticked on its original date...
> the best way to get an airline seat...on Jan. 1, 2005.
>
> 2. Other VU operators will remain on the Islands and continue the
> emergency traffic for as long as it takes. More VU operators are
> traveling to Andaman to help out soon.
>
> 3. One of the VU4NRO stations is dispatched to one of the hardest hit
> NicobarIslands and is relaying out emergency traffic from that devastated
> place.
>
> 4. The other NRO station is again operational in the college dorm. They
> also are passing emergency traffic.
>
> 5. Around 0400 Z/UTC today Dec. 31, NRO will transmit slow scan TV
> pictures on 14.190 +-. These are photos from around the Islands and
> affected areas there. Any station is free to tune in and copy these TV
> pictures.
>
> 6. Let me again be clear about my status re VU4.... I served as a helper
> on this DXpedition and at all times tried to be sure it was an INDIA
> effort, not some foreigner's. That same fact prevailed as soon as the
> earthquake hit...that is, I helped and obverved, and took photos. It was
> clear from the time just after the quake onward that the INDIA hams had
> the situation completely handled and were immediately effective as
> emergency communicators. Further, these India operators speak the locaol
> languages, which I do not, further reason for me to only be an observer.
> I took my regularly scheduled air ticket date to depart Andaman... the
> only way I could get a ticket and reasoned that I could relay whatever
> Andaman traffic from my HS0ZCW station. That I did and continue to do.
>
> 7.Feel free to give my Thailand telephone number to anyone who wants it...
> 66-5-046-1922.
>
> Hams all over the affected area in multiple countries are stepping in and
> helping. It is a very gratifying international effort by hundreds of
> volunteer hams. I am proud of ham radio, again, today.
>
> Let us hope for a better New Year..... 73
>
> Charles Harpole
> k4vud@hotmail.com
