Author­i­ties held earth­quake drills nation­wide on Thurs­day April 21, in prepa­ra­tion train­ing for a dis­as­ter, and the Philip­pines Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion (PARA) HERO net­work was involved. 

HERO stands for Ham Emer­gency Radio Oper­a­tions and is the net­work that …

Fol­low­ing the 7.5 mag­ni­tude earth­quake cen­tred near the coast of Ecuador that has claimed more than 400 lives so far, and the fre­quen­cy 7.060 MHz is being used as radio ama­teurs han­dle emer­gency traffic. 

The earth­quake on April 16 caused …

Fol­low­ing the 7.5 mag­ni­tude earth­quake cen­tred near the coast of Ecuador that has claimed more than 400 lives so far, and the fre­quen­cy 7.060 MHz is being used as radio ama­teurs han­dle emer­gency traffic.

The earth­quake on April 16 caused …

Inter­na­tion­al Ama­teur Radio Union Pres­i­dent, Tim Ellam VE6SH/G4HUA told the
Glob­al Forum on Emer­gency Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions that Ama­teur Radio is probably
more rel­e­vant now than it was 25 years ago.

The Inter­na­tion­al Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Union event GET-2016 was held in Kuwait
City …