…when anything fails, ham radio!
A team R.V.S.U (Volunteers in Emergencies amateurs), in the sea of members to Radioclubului YO3KSR to the Romanian Society of Amateur Radio will attend "First Escape". Participation ham is designed as an exercise and mobilize track team is always ready to act in a real case of emergency.
Hams of R.V.S.U. They will find each checkpoint, ready to provide support if it means "traditional" communication defeated or are unable to properly transfer emergency information by the organizers but also the institutions involved in support activities.
Amateur radio network will be complex, It is formed by a dispatcher who was in radio communication with both commercial frequencies used by the organizers and teams of route.
Logistics includes equipment type repeater, one of which is located at high altitude (Vf. Ant Sinaia) .
In frequencies radiomator, The network includes more than 20 mobile and portable radio stations as well as a mobile repeater that will operate in ultra-short waves.
because, the amateur radio frequencies only they have the right to communicate, team organizers was turned to trading partners SRR, which will provide a total of 30 radio stations radio frequency trading.
Numerous times, amateurs have proven experience and their equipment are able to ensure the correct transmission of information in areas affected by the destruction of commercial and government communications infrastructure.
Earthquakes in Indonesia, Haiti, Japan, China, Turkey, Hurricane Katrina or catastrophic floods such as those in Italy were as many occasions when amateurs were the first and, sometimes only for a long time they could transmit information to spot, supporting search and rescue teams or supply-transport.
And Romania has such a radio network based on the voluntary action of amateurs.
To be sure cope, hams from Romania do regular exercises and, when requested, get involved in events that are at risk for bodily integrity, health or life of participants.