Club de Radio Aficionados de El Salvador

The Club de Radio Aficionados de El Salvador ( CRAS ) is the Salvadoran umbrella organization for the promotion of amateur radio on all frequency bands to which it is entitled and in all approved types of transmission in El Salvador .

purpose

CRAS is a state-recognized non-profit organization for radio amateurs in El Salvador, member of the International Amateur Radio Union in IARU Region 2 and member of the Federación de Radioaficionados de Centroamérica (FRACAP).

The CRAS was founded on June 24, 1958 and approved by the government on October 9, 1959 (Diario Oficial (Official Gazette) No. 185).

The purpose of the CRAS is to promote amateur radio and to provide emergency radio in the event of a disaster. The organization maintains its own QSL office and maintains regular communication with radio amateurs abroad and with the authorities. The current president is José Arturo Molina Saldaña, amateur radio callsign YS1MS. The headquarters of the CRAS is located in the Colonia Lomas de San Francisco in San Salvador on a hill 794 msnm. There is also an amateur radio museum in the central building of the CRAS administration.

Emergency radio

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The CRAS with its network for emergency communication in the event of a disaster in El Salvador is of particular importance. El Salvador is prone to natural disasters, especially earthquakes, and the CRAS is the basis for coordinating aid in cases where conventional communication no longer works.

The CRAS became the most important partner of the rescue forces through the support of the authorities, the Red Cross, the fire brigade and the Comité de Emergencia Nacional in establishing communication links during the earthquake on May 3, 1965, in October 1982 and in October 1986 and during the earthquakes in January 2001 and February of the same year. The CRAS established the wireless connection to the emergency power supply to organize medication, drinking water and food, to notify relatives of the missing persons or to transmit news of deaths. To this end, CRAS operates a digital and analog emergency radio network via relay stations and communication satellites in the VHF and UHF band . The locations of the emergency radio systems ensure full coverage of the territory. International aid is organized via shortwave stations. CRAS is part of the Central American network of government agencies that was founded as the Emergency Coordination Center for the Prevention of Natural Disasters in Central America (CEPREDENAC) in 1993 within the framework of the Central American Integration System (SICA) and incorporated into the national civil protection organization Protección Civil El Salvador .

On November 4, 2012, an agreement on transnational disaster relief was reached with the umbrella organization Radio Club Uruguayo .

Web links

• Official website
• Press release Radioaficionados cumplieron 50 años
• Members of the International Amateur Radio Union
• Emergency plan, with an international emergency frequency list in the event of a disaster in El Salvador (Spanish)
• Extensión de Licencia e Inscripción de Radioaficionado from the SIGET website, accessed November 17, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fundamento Juridico: Art. 13 inciso 1 de la Ley de Telecomunicaciones Art. 58 Reglamento de la Ley de Telecomunicaciones, Normas para le Operación de Radioaficionados en El Salvador
2. ↑ Repetidoras Análogas . Retrieved November 17, 2013 (Spanish).
3. ↑ CRAS and RCU in QSO on the International Amateur Radio Union website, Región 2. Retrieved November 18, 2013 (English).

Coordinates: 13 ° 40 ′ 43 "  N , 89 ° 13 ′ 40"  W.