Real­ism was added to Exer­cise Mag­gie by only releas­ing the details to the State Emer­gency Ser­vice and embed­ded radio ama­teurs at a very late stage, so it sim­u­lat­ed a call-out of volunteers.
The sce­nario on the week­end of Octo­ber 25 …

The Hur­ri­cane Watch Net has been acti­vat­ed for Hur­ri­cane Gon­za­lo cur­rent­ly at sea in the Caribbean and expect­ed to reach the British and US Vir­gin Islands. 

The net is using 14.325 MHz and 7.268 MHz. Please keep those fre­quen­cies clear. 

It …

When the pow­er­ful Cyclone Hud­hud swept into the Bay of Ben­gal coastal areas
of India dis­as­ter author­i­ties called on radio ama­teurs to help out.

Nation­al Coor­di­na­tor for Dis­as­ter Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Jayu Bhide VU2JAU said,
“In Odis­sa there are six hams work­ing hard …

An earth­quake that hit the Yun Nan province in the south­west Chi­na’s mountainous
region on Octo­ber 7, caused a death, injured 336 with 50,000

The 6.6 mag­ni­tude Richter scale earth­quake was respond­ed to main­ly by the
mil­i­tary res­cue force and some …

The big clean-up con­tin­ues in the wake of pow­er­ful Cyclone Hud­hud which affect­ed the Bay of Ben­gal leav­ing a path of dam­age. Some media accounts put the toll at 46 lives.
The area has some of the world’s strongest trop­i­cal cyclones. …