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 …

Typhoon Labuyo — PARA acti­vates 7.095 MHz emcomm net

As of 7am today (Sun­day), PARA has acti­vat­ed HERO ARES cen­tered on 7.095 MHz. We have advised local clubs to acti­vate local nets at 144.740 MHz.

Typhoon Labuyo has a big …

WICEN in Blue Moun­tains search
The week long miss­ing of a 23-year old man in the Blue Moun­tains West of Syd­ney is con­tin­u­ing, led by the police res­cue with the help of vol­un­teers includ­ing WICEN mem­bers pro­vid­ing vital com­mu­ni­ca­tions in …

Mon­soon rains spread in India
Flood­ing caused by heavy mon­soon rains con­tin­ue to affect India with the death toll var­i­ous­ly put at 1,000 in the north on the Indo-Tibet bor­der, and now the south of that coun­try is also being deluged.…

Flood­ing in India — update
The cri­sis caused by the dev­as­tat­ing flood in north­ern India last week claim­ing about 900 lives, is con­tin­u­ing to receive help relief through mes­sages from ama­teur radio sta­tions in the affect­ed area.
Jayu S. Bhide VU2JAU…