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Super Typhoon disaster in the Philippines

Pow­er­ful Typhoon Haiyan (local­ly named Yolan­da), the strongest ever to hit
land, struck the cen­tral Philip­pines on Fri­day, killing at least four people,
cut­ting ser­vices, leav­ing the task of pro­vid­ing shel­ter, wel­fare and the
mas­sive clean-up. 

Ramon Anquilan DU1UGZ, of the …

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Strong typhoon hits Philippines

The Super Typhoon Haiyan has affect­ed the Philip­pines, trig­ger­ing flooding,
destroy­ing build­ings and caus­ing mil­lions of peo­ple to take shelter. 

Ramon Anquilan DU1UGZ of the Philip­pines Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion (PARA)
reports that the typhoon made land­fall at about …

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July — September 2013

A word from the Chair­man Gopal Mad­ha­van VU2GMN = IARU Michael J. Owen VK3KI Award. = JARL Ham­fair 2013 and IARU Region 3 Direc­tors Meet­ing = Annu­al IARU AC Meet­ing = Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Work­shop Region 2 = IARU Region 2 …

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Emerging requirements for emcomm

Recent­ly we had sev­er­al earth­quakes and storms. Thank you for your prompt reports. What has emerged is that being request­ed are needs for a lit­tle more information. 

The ques­tions being asked include who is involved (names, call­signs and loca­tion), if

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Emergency Communications in two disasters

When a fierce cyclone came ashore in India, and a dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake struck the Philip­pines, it was radio ama­teurs who pro­vid­ed vital communications. 

As Cyclone Phailin head­ed towards Indi­a’s Bay of Ben­gal author­i­ties quick­ly evac­u­at­ed dan­ger­ous areas. The Ama­teur Radio

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