The West Ben­gal Radio Club in India is pro­vid­ing log­i­cal help dur­ing a reli­gious fes­ti­val on Sagar Island, main­ly for lost chil­dren, as part of their emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions training.

On the con­ti­nen­tal shelf of Bay of Ben­gal the island is …

The Sim­u­lat­ed Emer­gency Test to mea­sure the dis­as­ter readi­ness of Ama­teur Radio involved 38 coun­tries and four oth­ers who recog­nised its impor­tance but could not take part this time. 

IARU Region 1 Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Co-Ordi­­na­­tor Greg Mossop G0DUB, has reported …

Philip­pine Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion (PARA) acti­vat­ed its Ham Emer­gency Radio
Oper­a­tions (HERO) last Sat­ur­day in view of the immi­nent tra­verse of typhoon Nona (Inter­na­tion­al Name — Melor) through the Philip­pine arch­i­pel­ago as announced by the Nation­al Traffic …

Heavy rains hit Chen­nai, once known as Madras, home to 4.6 mil­lion in India’s south, killed more than 320 peo­ple and left thou­sands stranded.
Ama­teur Radio Soci­ety of India Pres­i­dent, VU2GMN Gopal Mad­ha­van VU2GMN said pro­vid­ing help were radio amateurs …

When the tor­ren­tial rain feel for sev­er­al days in South India, numer­ous areas were flood­ed. Author­i­ties, hun­dreds of hous­es sub­merged, and the death toll was at about 300 and rising.

Gopal Mad­ha­van VU2GMN report­ed that some areas had 3 to …