{"id":6420,"date":"2015-04-30T12:39:26","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T04:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=6420"},"modified":"2015-04-30T18:50:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T10:50:08","slug":"the-spcb-helping-out-sares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=6420","title":{"rendered":"The SPCB helping out SARES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SUPP Public Complaints Bureau (SPCB) was recently approached by the Sarawak Amateur Radio Emergency Services (SARES) who is\u00a0facing some delay in their application for the installation of a VFH private network apparatus assignment and amateur radio repeater at Gunung Serapi, Borneo Heights Resort and Gedong from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC).<\/p>\n<p>The application by SARES is to enhance their capabilities to work with the Government through providing better communication which will assist the Government to respond more efficiently and effectively in bringing aid to areas affected by extensive flooding when the need arise.<\/p>\n<p>SARES is a club whose membership comprise of radio amateurs who enjoy radio technology as a hobby. When cell phones, regular phones, the internet and other systems are down or overloaded, amateur radio can still get the message through and is a vital service that can serve as an effective communication tool when regular communication systems fails.<\/p>\n<p>SPCB, together with SARES lead by its President David Linang Janting and his Deputy, Joseph Siong together with their committee, recently made a courtesy call to the Kuching Office of MCMC at Wisma STA, to find out the reasons\u00a0for the delay in the application and to appeal to the MCMC to speed up the approval.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC_948511.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6421\" alt=\"DSC_948511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC_948511-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC_948511-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/DSC_948511-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUPP Public Complaints Bureau (SPCB) was recently approached by the Sarawak Amateur Radio Emergency Services (SARES) who is\u00a0facing some delay in their application for the installation of a VFH private network apparatus assignment and amateur radio repeater at Gunung Serapi, Borneo Heights Resort and Gedong from the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). The application by SARES is to enhance their capabilities to work with the Government through providing better communication which will assist the Government to respond more efficiently and effectively in bringing aid to areas affected by extensive<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/?p=6420\" class=\"read-more\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6422,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6420\/revisions\/6422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.suppnewsportal.com\/main\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}