Thursday, April 03, 2014

Chilean Earthquake Emergency on HF

I've been hearing some ALE soundings from OMEMI, Chile's emergency management agency.

The thing to understand about Chile is that it's very long and skinny on a N-S axis, so its coastline is very, very long and evacuating the whole thing is a massive undertaking.  They've done it twice in two days.

ONEMI stands (in Spanish for) Oficina National de Emergencia del Ministerio de Interior (Ministry of Interior National Emergency Office).   It's USB ALE frequencies are:

    6834.0     6843.0     6861.0     6871.0     6877.0     9084.0     9087.0
    9091.0     9140.0     9150.0     10128.0     10135.0     10160.0
    10176.5     10187.0     10193.0     10218.0     10222.0     10234.0
    10244.0     17411.0     17426.0     17446.0     17450.0     17454.0

The navy uses LSB and USB on:
    6848.0     11429.0     17466.0     20400.0

Voice comms have been heard in the past after the autolinking.