Flood­ing dis­as­ter con­tin­ues to hit the US state of Col­orado as rivers over­flowed dam­ag­ing roads and prop­er­ty in the Rocky Moun­tain foothills. Four peo­ple have died since the floods began Wednes­day. Hun­dreds have not been heard from as res­cuers make …

Trans-Pacif­ic Emcomm Exercise

The recent Pacif­ic Endeav­or-13 sim­u­lat­ed emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions exercise
using ama­teur radio in make-believe ‘Paci­fi­ca’ worked well and showed how
it could be used to get help in times of a nat­ur­al disaster.

A Pub­lic Affairs Direc­tor for …

Hams join Cal­i­for­ni­a’s wild­fire response

Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Ser­vice (ARES) and Radio Ama­teur Civ­il Emergency
Ser­vice (RACES) vol­un­teers have been called up by Tuolumne Coun­ty officials
to help fill com­mu­ni­ca­tion gaps in response to the Rim Fire.…

Emcomm gets APT and MARS attention

The Inter­na­tion­al Ama­teur Radio Union (IARU) helped to fur­ther raise aware­ness of the role of Ama­teur Radio dur­ing times of nat­ur­al dis­as­ters caused by extreme weath­er events and man-made fail­ure of communication …