Amateur Radio Station
at the
National Hurricane Center

Located on the campus of
Florida International University
Miami, Florida

Celebrating 30 years of Public Service !
Our Mission: To Help Save Lives.

WX4NHC Ham Radio Club Emergency Communications
helps Haiti Earthquake Medical Mission and asks for donations.

The WX4NHC Ham Radio Club volunteer operators have been providing Emergency Communications for a major University Medical Field Hospital in Port-au-Prince Haiti.
This is one of the largest Field Hospitals with 240 beds and more than 120 Doctors and Nurses helping critically injured people.
They have already performed more than 1,000 operations and continue to help hundreds of people each day.

WX4NHC Ham Radio Club has installed two complete HF/VHF/UHF radio stations with multiple antennas at both the university's Haiti Field Hospital and the university's Miami Haiti Command Center to support this vital humanitarian medical mission.
Volunteer teams of Ham Radio/MARS Radio Operators have been deployed on a weekly basis to operate the station in Haiti for 5 weeks and we have incurred expenses beyond club our savings and the initial equipment grant.

This Medical Mission has saved lives because of the emergency communications provided by these dedicated volunteer Amateur Radio / MARS Radio Operators who have made personal sacrifices to take off from their work/business, pay their travel expenses to Miami, take multiple vaccines and malaria prophylaxis treatment, carry a hundred pounds of equipment and supplies to spend a week as 2-man teams to provide these vital communications.

The Haiti Field Hospital Ham Radio station has been one of the best examples of communications interoperability and cooperation by different agencies and organization that we have seen by connecting multiple agencies and functions that were once not able to talk directly to each other. For example: Field Hospital Haiti at Port-au-Prince airport compound to USNS Comfort Hospital ship, coordinating Medivac and critical patient transports, Field Hospital Haiti to airport terminal to coordinate arrivals and cargo transfers, Field Hospital Haiti to other nearby Medical Centers and Missions allowing Field Hospital Haiti Doctors to consult directly to their counterparts. We are also providing relay and paging functions on UHF for the Doctors that are using low power FRS/GMRS Walkie Talkies.
All this is addition to our primary mission of providing international HF communications backup from the Field Hospital in Haiti to the university's Command Center in Miami in case of failure of the satellite link.

Please help us with this humanitarian mission and our hurricane season operations.
Your support will help us with the expenses for this vital medial mission in Haiti and our annual Hurricane Season volunteer operations.

You will receive a letter acknowledging your donation.
Thank you for your generosity.

Please help support our Amateur Radio Mission so that we can continue to help those in need during and after a natural disaster.
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WX4NHC Inc. is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
Your donation can be tax deductable to the extent allowed by the IRS.

 
Haiti Pictures by Louis Cruz, N4LDG

Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have been affected by the Earthquake.

The ARRL (American Radio Relay League) News Article of the Ham Radio Haiti mission.  
http://www.arrl.org/news/stories/2010/03/03/11371/?nc=1

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