Trop­i­cal Storm Dan­ny mov­ing over Puer­to Rico and towards Cuba marks the first notable storm of the Atlantic Hur­ri­cane Sea­son this year.
So it is time to remind the wider Ama­teur Radio com­mu­ni­ty that the fol­low­ing fre­quen­cies may be in use by nets in North and Cen­tral Amer­i­ca to track and deal with the con­se­quences of these severe weath­er events.
Radio Ama­teurs in Region 2 play their part in gath­er­ing and dis­trib­ut­ing infor­ma­tion for the weath­er and emer­gency ser­vices as they do every year.
All Radio Ama­teurs are remind­ed it is pos­si­ble to cause unin­ten­tion­al QRM to these nets so please lis­ten care­ful­ly if oper­at­ing near these frequencies:
Caribbean Emer­gency & Weath­er Nets: 7.162 & 3.815 MHz
East­ern Caribbean Nar­row Band Emer­gency Sys­tem Net: 7.036 MHz USB (Olivia & MT63)
Caribbean Emer­gency: 14.185 MHz
Repub­li­ca Domini­cana: 7.065 & 3.780 MHz
Cuba: 7.045, 7.080, 7.110, and 3.740 MHz
Cen­tral Amer­i­ca: 7.090 & 3.750 MHz
Nicaragua: 7.098 MHz
Guatemala: 7.075 MHz
Pana­ma: 7.085 MHz
Mex­i­co: 7.060 & 3.690 MHz
USA: Mar­itime Mobile Ser­vice Net: 14.300 MHz, Hur­ri­cane Watch Net: 14.325 MHz, Sal­va­tion Army Team Emer­gency Radio Net­work (SATERN): 14.265 MHz
Oth­er local emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions groups may also acti­vate if a hur­ri­cane approach­es their area and those fre­quen­cies would be announced at the time.
— IARU Region 1 Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Coor­di­na­tor, Greg Mossop G0DUB.