Turkey Amateur Radio Club President Aziz Sasa,TA1E, reports that three
Amateur Radio operators joined the Turkish Relief Team that departed
for the incident location--the city of Bam, some 600 miles south of
Tehran--from Istanbul December 27 aboard a military aircraft. Local
communications will be carried out on 2-meter simplex with HF operation
on 14.270 MHz during the day and on 7092 kHz or 3777 kHz during hours
of darkness. Soyhan Erim, TA2IJ, will handle HF operations at the
Turkish Incident Command Post. He is part of the Ministry of Health
team. Erdinc Sarimusaoglu, TA2RJ, is part of the AKUT Search and
Rescue Team, while Mustafa Yuceturk, TA1CAN, is a member of the
Istanbul Civil Defense Search-and-Rescue team. Also on site is Serdar
Demirel, TA2NO, a member of the Ankara Civil Defense SAR team, who
arrived earlier.