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 …

Alber­ta floods — Request to keep fre­quen­cies clear
Please keep 7.135 MHz and 3.675 MHz clear in sup­port of the of com­mu­ni­ca­tions for the floods in Alber­ta. We are get­ting a lot of ARRL Field Day interference.…

Cuba emer­gency fre­quen­cies in use
Arnie Coro CO2KK has report­ed heavy rains in Cuba’s province of Pinar del Rio and the acti­va­tion by FRC (Fed­era­cion de Radioafi­ciona­dos de Cuba) of their Emer­gency Nation­al Net CO9DCN on the fre­quen­cies 3720, 3740, 7110 …