Major dam­age has been caused by Trop­i­cal Cyclone Mar­cia that came ashore rip­ping roofs off, down­ing trees, dam­ag­ing pow­er­lines and oth­er infra­struc­ture.  No lives were lost. 

The Bureau of Mete­o­rol­o­gy reports that the weath­er sys­tem quick­ly devel­oped into a Cat­e­go­ry 5 …

Dis­as­ter relief ser­vices with some radio ama­teurs pro­vid­ing emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions have respond­ed to the erupt­ing Fuego Vol­cano in the Repub­lic of Guatemala of Cen­tral America.

The Club of Ama­teur Radio of Guatemala (CRAG) has TG0AA acti­vat­ed on HF…

After days of high tem­per­a­tures, low humid­i­ty and wind that fanned a large bush­fire in the Ade­laide Hills of South Aus­tralia, comes rain with cool­er weath­er giv­ing relief to the area.
The fire that began ear­ly in Jan­u­ary cov­ered more than …

No rest for the busy HERO (Ham Emer­gency Radio Oper­a­tions) net­work which has again acti­vat­ed for the storm Jang­mi (Seni­ang) that made land­fall in Min­danao Island on Decem­ber 29 and crossed cen­tral areas caus­ing mas­sive floods and landslides. 

At least …