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 …

More than a dozen twisters accom­pa­nied by vio­lent storms have left a trail of death and destruc­tion. At least 30 deaths occurred in Okla­homa, Alaba­ma, Arkansas, Mis­sis­sip­pi and Tennessee. 

Mike Corey KI1U, the ARRL Emer­gency Pre­pared­ness Man­ag­er, said he …