ARLA/CLUSTER: Computer Association of Nepal-USA apela à libertação alfandegária de equipamentos para radioocomunicações

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Disaster Communication Group calls for release of radio gear

The *Computer Association of Nepal-USA* (CAN-USA) has called on the Amateur
Radio community to urge the government of Nepal to release radio equipment
being held up in customs, so that it can be used to support the earthquake
relief and recovery effort

The ARRL report:

CAN-USA held a news conference May 1 in Santa Clara, California, to
publicize its role in providing disaster communication in Nepal as well as
to promote its fund-raising efforts. CAN-USA calls its project to advance
Amateur Radio in Nepal “Radio Mala,� describing it as “disaster
communication infrastructure to connect Kathmandu and the surrounding
region in a ring of protective Amateur Radio communication.� CAN-USA — also
known as the Global Nepali Professional Network (GNPN) — funded and
installed the only Amateur Radio repeater currently in service in Nepal and
donated a transmitter that was recently used to transmit slow-scan TV
images of the affected area to a Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS)
operator in Afghanistan.

“Radio Mala team members have been working on their disaster-communication
project for Nepal for several years, knowing a massive earthquake in Nepal
was imminent,� the organization said on its Facebook page. “Their single
repeater, which was erected in 2013, withstood the devastating 7.8
earthquake that hit on April, 25, 2015, and is the only repeater that has
been in constant use since the earthquake occurred. This team is now even
more invigorated to complete their project to help provide crucial
communication well into the future.�

“Advanced radio equipment intended for the Radio Mala project has been
locked up in Nepali customs since March — equipment for a next-generation
Amateur Radio which could have saved lives had it been deployed before the
earthquake struck,� the organization said.

Read the full ARRL story at
http://www.arrl.org/news/american-nepali-disaster-communication-group-calls-for-release-of-needed-radio-gear
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