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Hams join Caribbean Tsunami Exercise

As part of dis­as­ter train­ing and pre­pared­ness CARIBE WAVE is the annu­al tsuna­mi exer­cise for the Caribbean and adja­cent regions.
A major objec­tive is for coun­tries and com­mu­ni­ties at risk from a major dis­as­ter to test, eval­u­ate and update their …

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RAYNET activated during flood alert

The Radio Ama­teurs’ Emer­gency Net­work or RAYNET was acti­vat­ed dur­ing a recent flood threat, by the Ten­dring Dis­trict Coun­cil via the Essex Civ­il Pro­tec­tion and Emer­gency Man­age­ment Team.

RSGB Deputy Region­al Man­ag­er for Essex, Roland Tay­lor M0BDB reports that Essex RAYNET

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Newsletter Q4 2016

A word from the Chair­man = Change in IARU Sec­re­tary = Hap­py Birth­day ITU Radio Reg­u­la­tions = 2016 ITU Radio Reg­u­la­tions released = IARU con­tin­ues prepa­ra­tions for WRC-19 = IARU R2 Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­shop = HFsat will have 21 to …

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Super typhoon clean-up underway

Six peo­ple have been killed and more than 380,000 evac­u­at­ed as Super Typhoon Nock-Ten (local­ly Nina) cut a path through the Philip­pines, with the Ham Radio Emer­gency (HERO) net acti­vat­ed in advance.

The Christ­mas Day dis­as­ter cut power …

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Indonesian earthquake report

The death toll from the earth­quake in Aceh Indone­sia on Wednes­day has reached 100, with near­ly 300 injured, and hams pro­vid­ing emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions to help with the response.

The earth­quake struck at 5am local time on Wednes­day and the toll …

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