ARLA/CLUSTER: Exercício conjunto de Itália e Malta em comunicações de emergencia tendo por base a Ilha de Lampedusa

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Italy-Malta Co-operation in Emergency Communications

Following their successful involvement in an Earthquake simulation exercise
in September, Maltese Radio Amateurs were invited to take part in a second
phase of the exercise on the Italian island of Lampedusa between September
28 and October 1

The team was very limited in the mass of equipment they could take with
them and had about 100 kg of equipment including radios, power supplies ,
antennas/dish, coax, masts, tools, laptop excluding personal belongings in
a backpack. Using this they were able to maintain contact between Malta and
Lampedusa on 40m, whereas signals on VHF/UHF and microwave were unstable
even with yagis on both sides. Malta had an Amateur Radio caravan located
at Dingli which had a clear take off to Lampedusa. The caravan is equipped
from hf to microwave and had radio contact with the Maltese Civil
Protection base of operation where messages were relayed to.

To avoid problems all exercise emails were passed from Lampedusa to Malta
via fldigi and flmsg and emails would then originated from Malta with
replies being passed back the same way. They also passed test messages to
other amateurs who were willing to pass email messages on their behalf.

'Real world' problems included a 1 hour scheduled power cut at Lampedusa
which the team were unaware of so they had to resort to borrowing a car
battery to power up the base station for more than an hour as their other
batteries were being used by the portable station at the site of the
exercise. Mobile phone connections at Lampedusa were unstable but this just
added to the realism of the exercise.

The Maltese team operated with 2 persons per site in 12 hour shifts for the
duration of the exercise which was again supported by the European Union.

Source: Greg Mossop G0DUB IARU Region 1
http://iaru-r1.org/
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