The Philip­pines Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion is ready to play its role alongside
oth­er agen­cies in an earth­quake drill, run by the Met­ro­pol­i­tan Mani­la Development
Authority.

Jojo Vicen­cio DU1VHY advis­es that the main area of con­cen­tra­tion contains
17 local gov­ern­ment units, …

In the morn­ing of April 25 an earth­quake mea­sur­ing 7.8 hit Nepal and trig­gered an avalanche on Mount Ever­est. There were fre­quent after-shocks includ­ing a mag­ni­tude of 6.7 on April 26, and on May 12 anoth­er earth­quake mea­sured 7.3 magnitude. …

Fol­low­ing recent heavy mon­soon rain in the sprawl­ing and dense­ly pop­u­lat­ed Mum­bai on Indi­a’s west coast, HAMS were involved in response preparedness. 

Jayu Bhide VU2JAU, the Nation­al Coor­di­na­tor for Dis­as­ter Com­mu­ni­ca­tion in India, tells us that when Mum­bai was …

The impor­tance of Ama­teur Radio to the com­mu­ni­ty in times of cri­sis and emer­gency has again been shown through the res­cue of a yacht skip­per 130 kms east of Esper­ance off the West­ern Aus­tralian coast. 

On board the strick­en yacht …