Emergency Service
RAL Amateur Radio emergency Service
The Lebanon Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) is the umbrella organizations of Amateur Radio emergency communications. The ARES is sponsored by RAL (although RAL membership is not required for ARES participation) and handles many different kinds of public-service activities.
Do you think there is an Emergency? First Check:
144.700 - OD5RAL/R VHF Repeater (Greater Beirut and Coastal Road)
438.100 - OD5RAL/R UHF Repeater(Greater Beirut and Coastal Road)
144.025 - OD5SX/R (Northern Lebanon and Coastal Road)
If repeaters are down, use repeater Output Frequency
Other Frequencies used in case of Emergency:
10m 28.600 KHz
15m 21.305 KHz
20m 14.305 KHz (primary)
40m 7.080 KHz
80m 3.780 KHz
Click here to download Lebanon' Amateur Radio Emergency Service Plan (Arabic Version).
Global Simulated Emergency Test - 18 April 2009 - 14:00 -18:00 Beirut Time
- Details
- Published on Saturday, 21 March 2009 13:45
- Written by Webmaster
The final rules for the GlobalSET exercise can now be downloaded from http://www.iaru-r1.org/GlobalSETApr09Rules-english.pdf
The message format used is the IARU HF Emergency Operating Procedure which can be found at http://www.iaru-r1.org/HFEmergOpProc.htm
A message form which shows the format to use is available at http://www.iaru-r1.org/IARU-msg1.pdf
With a sample sheet at http://www.iaru-r1.org/GlobalSETLog-example.pdf
Global Simulated Emergency Test (GlobalSET) 2008
- Details
- Published on Monday, 05 May 2008 02:51
- Written by Webmaster
IARU Region 1 invited the HQ-Stations of all IARU member societies and stations of Emergency Communications Groups to participate in a Global Simulated Emergency Test on Saturday May 3rd, 2008 at 18.00 – 22.00 UTC. The operation too take place on and near the emergency Centre-of-Activity (CoA) frequencies on 80, 40, 20, 17 and 15 meters (+- QRM ).
The objectives of the test are;
1- increase the common interest in emergency communications.
2- test how usable the CoA frequencies are across ITU regions.
3- create practices for international emergency communication and
4- practice the relaying of messages by voice and data modes.
RAL successfully participated in the GlobalSET represented by OD5KU - Elie, OD5RW - John and Mourad - SWL. The operation took place Mobile from Faraya running all bands on battery power.