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 …

Mon­soon floods that hit parts of Malaysia and Thai­land appears now to have eased but the big clean-up continues. 

John­ny Tan 9M8DB of the Malaysian Ama­teur Radio Trans­mit­ters’ Soci­ety (MARTS) says the flood­ing is the worst for a …

Often the land and marine resources of HAMNET, the Nation­al Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Divi­sion of the South African Radio League (SARL), is called to pro­vide com­mu­ni­ca­tions and trained people.
The emer­gen­cies have includ­ed adverse weath­er events, search­es for …

Severe flood­ing described as the worst for a long time in the north of Malaysia dur­ing the mon­soon sea­son has tak­en five lives with about 160,000 peo­ple evacuated. 

John­ny Tan 9M8DB of the Malaysian Ama­teur Radio Trans­mit­ters’ Soci­ety (MARTS…

The New­cas­tle Earth­quake Dis­as­ter hap­pened at 1027 hours on Decem­ber 28, 1989, that is 25 years ago — with those involved and offi­cials hold­ing a memo­r­i­al ceremony. 

Although only at 5.5 on the Richter scale, the earth­quake had dev­as­tat­ing effects …