In was in 1974 on Christ­mas Eve that Trop­i­cal Cyclone Tra­cy destroyed Dar­win in Aus­trali­a’s North­ern Territory.
The death toll was 66, but may be high­er because of unrecord­ed peo­ple liv­ing in Dar­win. Back then there were many sin­­gle-storey flimsy …

For those inter­est­ed, the full final report of Typhoon Hagupit (local­ly called 

Ruby) can be read at the fol­low­ing URL: 

http://www.para.org.ph/legacy/downloads/HERO%20Final%20Report.pdf

— Jim Lin­ton VK3PC, Chair­man IARU Region 3 Dis­as­ter Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Committee.…

The ben­e­fits of bet­ter com­mu­ni­ca­tions dur­ing dis­as­ters has been high­light­ed at the Inter­na­tion­al Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tion Union (ITU) Tele­com World ’14 held in Doha, Qatar. 

Inter­na­tion­al Ama­teur Radio Union (IARU) Pres­i­dent Tim­o­thy Ellam VE6SH/G4HUA, told those …

Philip­pine ama­teur radio oper­a­tors con­tin­ue to mon­i­tor 7.095 MHz on HF and 144.740 on VHF as typhoon Ruby (inter­na­tion­al name Hagupit) per­sists in its slow move­ment across the Visayas. 
A sol­id mix of oper­a­tors vol­un­teer to pro­vide essen­tial traf­fic as …

The ghast­ly acci­dent in Bhopal India on Decem­ber 3, 1984 claimed more than 3,000 lives and injured many thou­sands of oth­ers, as a dead­ly gas leaked from the Union Car­bide plant. 

A radio ama­teur team head­ed for Bhopal, learn­ing first-hand from …