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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>Isto não é motivo de reportagem nos jornais Portugueses,
nomeadamente no DN, porque será?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma>73 de José Luís Proença - CT1GZB<BR>ARVM # 53<BR>REP #
1418<BR></FONT><A href="http://ct1gzb.blogspot.com/"><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://ct1gzb.blogspot.com/</FONT></A></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 26, 2010 12:25
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> ARLA/CLUSTER: Radioamadores no
Paquistão estendem rede de emergência</DIV>
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<H1>Pakistan flood disaster update</H1>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The <STRONG>Pakistan Amateur Radio Society</STRONG>
(PARS) reports that emergency communications support for ham radio amateurs
have been extended in the past week to three more villages.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>PARS emergency communications organiser <STRONG>Asad
Marwat AP2AUM</STRONG> said food and non-food items have been provided to
around 1,000 families in the Charsadda and Nowshera areas.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>He said that a medical camp was also established which
treated almost 700 patients mainly suffering from Skin and Gastro diseases.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The United Nations estimates 20 million have been
affected across Pakistan by the flood disaster and 1600 lives lost.
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Asad AP2AUM said that the area is not covered under the
2-metre repeater footprint so communications have been restriction to simplex
operation within the group. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>He said <STRONG>that about 30 hams are providing help to
those who have fled the flooded areas</STRONG>.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Additionally <STRONG>hand-held radios and cross band
repeaters and antennas have been offered from Turkey</STRONG>. Once they
arrive, said Asad AP2AUM, the relief operation can be successfully expanded
into Inner Punjab Province. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>PARS continues working in collaboration with Islamabad
Jeep Club members with their 4WD sport utility vehicles delivering essential
relief supplies, with medical help being provided by the Pakistan Academy of
Family Physicians.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma></FONT></P>
<P><EM><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>Jim Linton
VK3PC</STRONG><BR><BR></FONT></EM><FONT size=2 face=Tahoma>Chairman,<BR>IARU
R3 Disaster Communications Committee</FONT></P></DIV>
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