The worst earthquake for 140 years hit off north-eastern Sendai (Japan) 
registering 8.9 on the Richter scale and triggering a tsunami. JARL 
Secretary Ken Yamamoto JA1CJP reports that the disaster appears to have 
resulted in more than 1,300 people killed or missing. JARL Regional HQ 
station JA7RL is now involved in emergency communication to support 
rescue and disaster relief coordination.

Ken JA1CJP said they are using 7 MHz SSB, 144 MHz SSB/FM and 430 MHz 
SSB/FM. The frequency 7043 controlled by JR3QHQ the Osaka branch manager 
of JARL. He is gathering incident information on radio and forwarding 
this information on the internet. The channel 7075 is operated by JL3YSP 
in Wakayama occasionally, while 7030 kHz is the JARL emergency 
communication frequency in their bandplan is in use by JA7RL (JARL 
regional HQ station). 

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update:
Ken JA1CJP said, ''In less damaged areas, the power supply is being restored 
gradually, and local amateur radio club members have started to establish 
stations at shelters."

The information is being coordinated, as part of an organized rescue and 
relief effort. It seems likely to continue for some weeks and months to come.


Statements issued by Vertex Standard Yaesu said its centre at Fukushima 
was currently out of action, while Icom and Kenwood are located elsewhere 
and not suffered the same outage.

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