EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS
Our correspondent in Brazil fills in once again this month as we continue to search for a permanent Emergency Communications Editor, sharing another report on amateur radio EmComm in South America and an interview with the editor of the Venezuelan Radio Club’s magazine, Henry Hernández Gonzales, YV5TT. –W2VU
The Venezuelan Radio Club (YV5RCV – YV5AJ – YV5RNE) is one of the oldest amateur radio institutions in South America, this year celebrating the 88th anniversary of its founding. It is a radio club that has always been committed to society, through its permanent collaboration in different catastrophes and emergencies.
And on this occasion, it was one of many institutions taking part this past March in the important CARIBE WAVE 2022 exercise.
With its lengthy coastline along the Caribbean Sea, Venezuela is not immune to the risk of tsunamis, which is why its participation in CARIBE WAVE 2022 was very significant, if not crucial.
CARIBE WAVE is the annual tsunami exercise of the Intergovernmental
