Folks,

Forwarded from KA1AAA via LockheedMartin ARC:

GEM (Global Emergency Communications) http://www.gem-int.org

GEM provides emergency comm for contacting health & welfare information. See below for details.

73 & take care,

Tony Armendariz, AD6ID SBARC

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Ham Radio Operators Helping from Afar By KA1AAA | Posted 21 hours ago | Cromwell, Connecticut

CNN PRODUCER NOTE KA1AAA has been a ham radio operator for 35 years and works with GEM, an organization of amateur radio operators who provide emergency communications during disasters. If you are looking for someone in the Philippines, you can provide your information for broadcast through GEM as well as sharing it through iReport and submitting to Google's Person Finder.

• rachel8, CNN iReport producer

I am a Ham Radio Operator and as you all know we do our very best as radio communications volunteers in devastated areas and Haiyan-13 is another one we are helping with. I belong to a couple organizations but the one I work with the most is GEM (Global Emergency Communications) http://www.gem-int.org. We are in the midst of it again. What we are able to do this disaster is provide Health and Welfare information to people requesting it. If you have a loved one we are on the ground in Cebo and Manila and other areas where there is power getting messages to and from the affected area.We thank CNN for doing their part and hope we can do our part by working together. -Ray, KA1AAA