Amateur Radio Emergency Service

Finally we are getting somewhere with the Amateur Radio Emergency Service. A meeting is setup to study emergency action plans of the Hellenic and American emergency groups so as to modify it for the Cyprus reality.

Where has R2 gone...

First thing when I check my email this morning I find out that Marinos 5B4AEZ has send an email to the Cyprus Amateur Radio email list claiming that R2 repeater on Vavatsinia mountain is not working. I also checked http://findu.com for the latest report on 5B8BE-11 digipeater that is colocated with R2 only to find out that it has not given signs of life for the last 16 hrs. Well this points only to two directions, either they blew up or something happened to their power supply. After all there was a thunderstorm yesterday at about 14:30 at Nicosia...