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ARESLAX and 7.2 Baja Earthquake
Los Angeles County experienced earthquake shock waves from the 7.2 Baja earthquake at approximately 03:50 PM Easter Sunday. The earthquake waves were observed as a slow rolling motion lasting a total of 20 to 45 seconds. The ARRL Los Angeles Section ARES (ARESLAX) immediately activated its emergency net. Amateur operators from all over the Los Angeles Section began checking in. Damage reports and field intelligence were encouraged. No reports of commercial communications outages were reported, nor major damage or other utilities outages. Monitoring the ARESLAX activity were personnel from the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the county hospital EOC. There were no requested served agency activations at that time.
ARRL elected officials and appointees who participated in the net included Marty Woll N6VI, Vice Director, Jim Curio KI6FGV, Southwest DEC, Eric Christensen K6EJC, Northwest DEC, Dennis Oszuscik KI6UNC, Northeast ADEC, Dean Cuadra WA6P, and David Greenhut N6HD, Los Angeles Section Manager, as well as many other ARES members and visitors (*see list below).
Following the initial section wide emergency net, ARESLAX Spanish-speaking operators was asked to monitor the HF bands for possible traffic from the disaster area. ARES operator Dr. Armando Montalvo KI6TAA was able to make immediate contact with XE2FMS in Mexicali, Mexico, as well as mobile stations XE2DZZ and XE2BRL. Initial reports indicated that the disaster area stations were without electricity and there was major road damage. Specifically, the major highway between Mexicali and Tijuana suffered severe thrust fault damage. ARESLAX forwarded at least one report to USGS for response coordination. ARESLAX continues to monitor the situation.
The Los Angeles Section Amateur Radio Emergency Service continues to need licensed amateur radio operators. If you are interested in using your radio skills to benefit the community please consider joining our organization. For more information or to join please go to our ARES page. Get involved!
| *Other participating operators: | ||||
| KC6UNY | K6JGZ | KF6GKR | K6EKC | KI6APC |
| K6MMP | KI6RWR | KB6OBM | KI6QME | KD8CGG |
| KE6FLU | KD6HTN | WA9STI | NY6Y | WA6TOJ |
| KG6DNY | KG6FBM | N8HLY | AC6VV | W6MBK |
| NY2B | KO6YA | W6ZRZ | KI6EBF | KI6PMD |
| KI6MSC | N6EZS | KI6KNB | KI6TAA | |
NEW - Donations Now (Gladly) Accepted
Los Angeles ARES has received IRS approval to accept fully tax-deductible contributions. Your donation will help defray the costs of our ongoing operations. Contributing is easy. Any time you're feeling generous, just click on the button in the sidebar and donate any amount via PayPal. It's a good thing to do.
VHF Traffic Net
The ARRL Los Angeles Section NTS now has a VHF/UHF phone traffic net Tuesdays and Thursdays at 2030 local time on the PAPA repeater system. Volunteers are needed as net control stations. All ARES members -- and especially current ARES net control stations -- are encouraged to participate. For more information, see David N6HD's posting on the Yahoo user group. The net schedule and script for net control stations are available here.
Public Service Honor Roll
Want to see your call in QST? (We mean inside the magazine, not just on the mailing label on the cover.) Here's a link to N6HD's PowerPoint presentation on how to rack up public service points and be recognized in QST's monthly Honor Roll.
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Want To Become a Ham?
If you're not a licensed amateur but always dreamed of becoming one (or if the idea just occurred to you five minutes ago), getting your license is easy and fun. Well hold training classes for all levels of amateur license. Check our ARES Training and Certification section for dates and times of classes. There are also any number of sources of information on the web to get you started. One of the best is the American Radio Relay League's Get On the Air web page. Check it out.