{"id":4375,"date":"2020-03-05T16:56:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/?p=4375"},"modified":"2020-03-05T16:56:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T15:56:34","slug":"dominican-republic-winlink-emergency-communications-agreement-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/dominican-republic-winlink-emergency-communications-agreement-signed\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic Winlink Emergency Communications Agreement Signed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 11, the <span class=\"caps\">DOMINICAN<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">INSTITUTE<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">OF<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">TELECOMMUNICATIONS<\/span> (<span class=\"caps\">INDOTEL<\/span>) and the <span class=\"caps\">EMERGENCY<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">OPERATIONS<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">CENTER<\/span> (<span class=\"caps\">COE<\/span>) working together in disaster prevention and mitigation signed an agreement that formalizes the use of Amateur Radio bands and processes to be used in case of a&nbsp;disaster.<\/p>\n<p>The signing took place at the Emergency Operations Center by General Juan Manuel Mendez of <span class=\"caps\">COE<\/span> and Mr. Nelson Guillen President of Indotel. After the document signing, they highlighted the important work of radio amateurs and the support the provide to the community during and after any disaster event.<\/p>\n<p>The document commits radio amateurs to use the <span class=\"caps\">WINLINK<\/span> system as a&nbsp;means of transferring information to and from the Dominican Republic, and providing local communications support for disaster response for Civil Defense, the <span class=\"caps\">COE<\/span>, and the Dominican Red Cross and other aid agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Rafael Martinez<\/p>\n<p>Hi8KW<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"caps\">RCD<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">IARU<\/span> Liaison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 11, the <span class=\"caps\">DOMINICAN<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">INSTITUTE<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">OF<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">TELECOMMUNICATIONS<\/span> (<span class=\"caps\">INDOTEL<\/span>) and the <span class=\"caps\">EMERGENCY<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">OPERATIONS<\/span> <span class=\"caps\">CENTER<\/span> (<span class=\"caps\">COE<\/span>) working together in disaster prevention and mitigation signed an agreement that formalizes the use of Amateur Radio bands and processes to be used in case of a&nbsp;disaster. The signing took place at the Emergency Operations Center by General Juan Manuel&nbsp;[\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4373,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iaru-r2.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}