** Venezuela Earthquake?? Frequency clearance requested ------------------------------------------------------------
For immediate release: June 26, 2026 ?

The following news post (https://www.iaru-r1.org/2026/venezuela-earthquake -25th-june-2026-frequency-clearance-requested/) was issued by the Internat ional Amateur Radio Union (IARU (https://www.iaru-r1.org/category/emergenc y-comms/) ) on June 25, 2026:

?Following the fatal earthquake in Venezuela on Wednesday at 5:04
PM local time (10:04 PM UTC), local Radio Amateurs have asked that that
all Amateur Radio colleagues in the Americas and the rest of the world pr otect the following frequency used by Venezuelan Amateur Radio operators:

40 m: 7135 kHz.

Domingo L. Hern ndez Lima, YV5IZE, Director of the Venezuelan Rad
io Club?s National Emergency Network reports that a large part of
the capital is without electricity and communication systems are operatin
g on battery power. They were already activating their emergency shortwave
(HF) frequency and also using digital frequencies and communication modes
.

At the same time, the emergency communications coordinators of Amateur R
adio operators from Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
, El Salvador, and other countries in the region, as well as members
of the Board of Directors of the International Amateur Radio Union Region
2 (IARU R2), remain on standby to provide any assistance that may be ne
eded.

Information received from Carlos Alberto Santamar¡a Gonz lez,
CO2JC, Emergency Communications Coordinator, IARU R2.

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Alan Griffin
RAC MarCom Director

Copyright ? 2026 Radio Amateurs of Canada, All rights reserved.


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