The Town of High Riv­er expe­ri­enced one of Canada’s great­est nat­ur­al dis­as­ters in June of 2013. With lit­tle warn­ing the riv­er over­flowed its banks and raced across town destroy­ing busi­ness­es, homes, infra­struc­ture and lives. 

Ham radio oper­a­tors from the Foothills Ama­teur …

The Nation­al Field Day & Emer­gency Pre­pared­ness event in India occurs on June the 7th and 8th and is an excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ty to test out field stations. 

It includes a con­test exchange between sta­tions on the 160, 80, 40, 20, …

The worst flood­ing in 120 years saw the Balka­ns receive three months of rain­fall in three days in May, killing dozens of peo­ple in Ser­bia, Croa­t­ia, and Bosnia-Herze­­gov­­i­na. The emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­vid­ed by radio ama­teurs helped coor­di­nate the res­cue efforts.…

The Unit­ed States mil­i­tary could be turn­ing to radio rather than being only reliant on satel­lite com­mu­ni­ca­tion technology. 

Draw­ing on the expe­ri­ences of radio ama­teurs in dis­as­ters like 9/11, Hur­ri­cane Kat­ri­na and Hur­ri­cane Sandy, that used radio effec­tive­ly when mobile …

The Malaysian Ama­teur Radio Trans­mit­ters’ Soci­ety (MARTS) on Sat­ur­day May 10, held an ‘Emcomm GoB­ox’ con­test to show how to pack the min­i­mum essen­tial equip­ment need­ed to enable a light-weight, rugged, yet portable emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions station. 

MARTS wanted …