Typhoon alert — 40m fre­quen­cy in use
The Philip­pine Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion (PARA) has acti­vat­ed its Emer­gency Net to mon­i­tor trop­i­cal typhoon Rumbia (Phils code­name Gorio) as it tra­vers­es the East­ern Visayas Region in the gen­er­al direc­tion of the …

GAREC 2013 sum­ma­ry held in Zurich, Switzer­land, 26 ‑27 June 2013, from Greg Mossop G0DUB, Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Co-Ordi­­na­­tor at IARU Region 1.

The ninth Glob­al Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Con­fer­ence, GAREC-2013, took place in Zurich, Switzer­land host­ed by …

Hams in India pro­vide emer­gency communications
In north­ern India, the ear­ly sea­son­al mon­soon rains are three times as heavy as usu­al, caus­ing flood­ing, mud­slides and a death toll of at least 800. The dis­as­ter caught every­one by surprise.

The emer­gency …

Cana­da floods keep hams busy
Swollen rivers and creeks have caused flood­ing over a wide swath of the south­ern part of Alber­ta in Canada.
The gov­ern­ment has declared a local emer­gency for 25 com­mu­ni­ties, which are in var­i­ous stages from disaster …