ARLA/CLUSTER: Nepal já tem em funcionamento em Katmandu um segundo repetidor doado pela CAN-USA

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

 Nepal now has a second repeater in operation

The ARRL report a VHF repeater that had been held up in customs in
Nepal during the response to the April 25 magnitude 7.8 earthquake now
has been installed at Tribhuvan University in Kathmandu

The new system will be put to use during the current earthquake
recovery effort and available for any future emergencies, if needed.
Initially disrupted by a magnitude 7.3 aftershock earlier this month,
the installation was completed on May 20. It is Nepal’s first VHF
repeater (145.81 in/145.21 out with 100 Hz tone). The country’s only
other repeater is a dual-band (VHF/UHF) machine. Ojha said the
repeater, installed by Sanjeeb Panday, 9N1SP, and his students at
Tribhuvan University, has been tested successfully from multiple
locations in Nepal’s capital city.

“Even though they had to struggle through a challenging customs
process, even though they were interrupted in their efforts by the
second massive quake, they persevered and got the repeater functional
during a time of a great humanitarian crisis,” Suresh Ojha, W6KTM, the
Computer Association of Nepal-USA (CAN-USA)/Radio Mala Disaster
Preparedness Committee chairman told ARRL this week. “The Nepali
people now have two repeaters to service Kathmandu, both of them
donated by CAN-USA.”

Read the full ARRL story at
http://www.arrl.org/news/view/nepal-now-has-a-second-repeater-in-operation