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 …

A team of 14 radio ama­teurs are now involved in emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tion net as Cyclone Nilo­far with its rain and wind approach­es the west coast of India out of the Ara­bi­an Sea.
Nation­al Coor­di­na­tor for Dis­as­ter Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Jayu Bhide VU2JAU says …

Ham oper­a­tors of Gujarat have respond­ed to requests from the Gov­ern­ment of Gujarat to set up their sta­tions as a pre­cau­tion­ary mea­sure at Bhuj, Dwari­ka, Por­ban­dar and Rajkot. 

This is ahead of Cyclone Nilo­far fore­cast to land in the coastal …

Ham radio and oth­er prepa­ra­tions includ­ing evac­u­a­tions are being made for Cyclone Nilo­far, like­ly to move towards the Gujarat state coast in the next 48 hours. 

Local author­i­ties are mon­i­tor­ing the sit­u­a­tion and have been advised to keep their con­trol rooms …