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Bushfires – VK hams provide communicationsThe Australian Red Cross communications arm RECOM, run by radio amateurs, is providing vital support as bushfires continue in the Gippsland region of eastern Victoria (Australia). Two RECOM units were activated on Thursday 29 January to provide communications at the Mirboo North and Churchill relief centres as hundreds of people were forced by the fires to leave their homes or unable to reach them. More than 600 evacuees or displaced people have been registered by the RECOM units with that information being transmitted by digitally encrypted HF radio back to the Red Cross State Inquiry Centre in Melbourne. The fires occurred during a once-in-a-century record three days heat-wave with temperatures topping 43 degrees Celscuis (109 Fahrenheit). Some 30 homes have been destroyed. RECOM has advised Amateur Radio Victoria that its members involved are Bruce VK3BNK, Graeme VK3BXG, Peter VK3AUO, Donald VK3BPD, John VK3BQS, Warren VK3XSW, Graham VK3GBJ and John VK3ATQ.
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