<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">If you want to listen for fire/hurricane info on HF.......</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><tbody><tr><td style="padding:0.75pt"><div style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-left:none;border-bottom:1pt solid rgb(223,226,229);padding:0in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin-left:7.5pt;margin-right:0in"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;border:none;padding:0in"><b><span style="font-size:15pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(13,82,142)">5-MHz Interoperability Channels Designated for Wildfires and Hurricane Sally Response<u></u><u></u></span></b></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline"><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,68,102);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">09/15/2020</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,68,102)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,68,102)">The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has announced that two 60-meter channels have been made available, as necessary, for <span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">interoperability between US Government stations and US </span>a<span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">mateur </span>r<span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">adio station</span>s<span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> involved in emergency communications related to the wildland firefighting response in California, Oregon, and Washington, and to Hurricane Sally. These interoperability channels will remain active until the need for these channels no longer exists:</span><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0.25in;vertical-align:baseline"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,68,102)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,68,102)">Channel 1 — primary voice traffic 5332 kHz channel center, 5330.5 kHz USB voice<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6pt;margin-left:0.25in;vertical-align:baseline"><u></u><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Symbol;color:rgb(34,68,102)">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">         </span></span><u></u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,68,102)">Channel 2 — digital traffic 5348 kHz channel center, 5346.5 kHz USB with 1.5-kHz offset to center of digital waveform.</span></p></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div>