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 …

Hams help out in vol­cano drama
Chilean and Argen­tine offi­cials issued a red alert for the increas­ing­ly active Copahue vol­cano that bor­ders the two coun­tries and ordered 3,000 peo­ple to evacuate.
Jorge Sier­ra LU1AS reports the dra­ma has seen mem­bers of …

Big twister hits Oklahoma
The trail of destruc­tion and dam­age caused by the tor­na­do in Okla­homa on May the 20th that left a death toll of 24, has been beamed into our lounge-rooms by numer­ous tele­vi­sion programs.
The Amer­i­can Red …

Glob­al ‘Sim­u­lat­ed Emer­gency Test (SET)’

A Glob­al ‘Sim­u­lat­ed Emer­gency Test’ is sched­uled for the 3rd of May between 1800 and 2200 hours UTC, this is the new name for the ‘Emcom Par­ties on the Air’ held in …