From nor­mal­ly sun­ny Flori­da comes news that on Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 27 at 1700 hours, dur­ing rare win­ter storms, the Escam­bia Coun­ty Emer­gency Man­age­ment called out the Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Ser­vice (ARES).

It had 46 radio ama­teurs active during …

Mon­soon floods that hit parts of Malaysia and Thai­land appears now to have eased but the big clean-up continues. 

John­ny Tan 9M8DB of the Malaysian Ama­teur Radio Trans­mit­ters’ Soci­ety (MARTS) says the flood­ing is the worst for a …

The lat­est offi­cial death toll in the Philip­pines from the world’s strongest
typhoon ever to reach land on Novem­ber 8 has reached 5,719, with 1,779 still
missing.

After weeks of deploy­ment the Philip­pines Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion (PARA)
has stood …

Ham Emer­gency Radio Oper­a­tion (HERO) sta­tions acti­vat­ed by the Philippines
Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion (PARA) are still in demand after Typhoon Haiyan
(Yolan­da), a Category‑5 storm, wreaked its destruc­tion on Novem­ber 8. 

PARA Vice Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer, Ramon …

One of the most pow­er­ful storms ever record­ed hit the cen­tral Philippines
on Novem­ber 8 with 314-km/  winds that killed about 4,000 peo­ple, swept away
coastal vil­lages and dev­as­tat­ed main cities.

The Philip­pines Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion (PARA) and its …