Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network

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The Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network (Satern) is the network of radio amateurs of the Civil Protection Unit of the Salvation Army ( Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services ) for emergency radio .

distribution

The SATERN network is mainly in the USA . Other countries in which the SATERN network is active are Russia and India . The network serves to convey messages, search queries and logistical messages between the public, authorities and the agencies of the Salvation Army. In 2012 SATERN had 4,600 trained members, mostly in the USA, where it also organizes its own courses and amateur radio exams for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

history

The network was founded in 1988 by Captain Patrick McPherson, civil protection coordinator for central Illinois and eastern Iowa . Initially, the network was used during local disasters, such as B. the 1990 tornado in Plainfield (Illinois) or the crash of an ATR 72 of American Eagle Airlines in Illinois in 1994. With an increasing number of members and spreading, initially mainly in the USA, SATERN was mainly active during national natural disasters , such as the earthquake of Kobe 1995 , Hurricane Mitch 1998 or the Gölcük earthquake in 1999 , in which it established the first telephone connection to Turkey after the earthquake. In connection with Hurricane Mitch, SATERN frequencies have been designated as the official emergency radio frequencies by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). During the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , u. a. A radio link established between two blood banks in California and near Ground Zero . In the 21st century, the focus was on searching for the missing of victims of the hurricanes . In the Atlantic hurricane season in 2004 requests were processed over 1,000. For this SATERN received a national award. 25,508 missing persons were located during Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita in 2005. 2005 was the first time with Satern amateur radio organization, the allocation of frequencies of a federal agency . In 2007 the Department of Homeland Security issued three callsigns (not amateur callsigns ) to SATERN.

year catastrophe success
1988 Hurricane Gilbert
1990 Tornado in Plainfield, Illinois
1993 Mississippi flood 1993
1994 Crash of an ATR 72 of American Eagle Airlines See also list of air accidents 1994
1995 1995 Kobe earthquake
1998 Hurricane Mitch
1999 Gölcük earthquake in 1999 First telephone connection to Turkey after the earthquake
2001 terror attacs at the 11th September 2001 Blood bank coordination
2003 Hurricane Fabian
2004 atlantic hurricane season 2004 National honor from SATERN for searching for missing persons in over 1,000 cases
2005 Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita Localization of 25,508 missing people,

activity

The SATERN network supports the Salvation Army in the event of a disaster by providing emergency radio and providing information on the availability of trained radio amateurs as manual switching centers . Besides SSB - voice and telegraphy and modern digital modes as are RTTY , Packet Radio and PSK31 and amateur-satellite service used.

Web links

literature

  • Ken Cavallero: Communication in disaster: Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network . In: Caring . tape 16 , no. 3 , September 2010, ISSN  0738-467X , ZDB -ID 1336446-7 , p. 41-42 (English).
  • Rick Lindquist: Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference 2014 Takes a Technological Tack . In: ARRL (ed.): QST . tape 98 , no. November 11 , 2014, ISSN  0033-4812 , p. 97 (English).
  • Cynthia M. Fagnonia: FEMA Should Update the Red Cross Role in Catastrophic Events and More Fully Assess Voluntary Organizations' Mass Care Capabilities. In: United States Government Accountability Office (Ed.): GAO Reports . September 23, 2008 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bill Feist: When All Other Communications Fail, Try SATERN… Salvation Army USA, April 11, 2012, accessed January 5, 2015 .
  2. ↑ SATERN training. Salvation Army Kansas & Western Missouri Division, accessed January 9, 2015 .
  3. ↑ a b c d SATERN Advancements. (PDF; 0.1 MB) Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network, April 4, 2012, p. 3 , archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on January 5, 2015 .
  4. ↑ a b c d e SATERN History. SATERN, accessed on April 27, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ a b Remembering 9–1-1 . In: CQ Communications, Inc. (Ed.): CQ Amateur Radio . No. November 11 , 2001, ISSN  0007-893X , p. 48–51 (English, nyc-arecs.org [PDF; accessed January 9, 2015]).
  6. ↑ Patrick McPherson: The SATERN Story . In: Central News . tape 21 , no. June 6 , 1991 (English, salarmymokan.org [accessed January 9, 2015]).