Hams ready as typhoon strikes twice
The pow­er­ful Typhoon Bopha that killed at least 600 peo­ple and left many miss­ing in south­ern Philip­pines last week, made an unex­pect­ed U‑turn to hit the north­ern part of the archipelago.
Active dur­ing both …

Dead­ly Typhoon heads back
The Philip­pine Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion (PARA) has reac­ti­vat­ed its emer­gency net for Typhoon Pablo (inter­na­tion­al name Bopha) because its path has changed and may hit the arch­i­pel­ago again.
Vice Chief Oper­at­ing Offi­cer of PARA, Ramon …

Dis­as­ter recov­ery helped by ama­teur radio
The radio ama­teur com­mu­ni­ty was pre­pared when a super typhoon unleashed its fury on the Philip­pines, uproot­ing trees, snap­ping pow­er lines, spark­ing land­slides, can­celling flights and fer­ries send­ing 40,000 peo­ple to shel­ters. Claim­ing more than …

Hams pro­vide emer­gency communications
Typhoon Bopha (local name Pablo) has hit The Philip­pines uproot­ing trees, down­ing pow­er lines, spark­ing land­slides and mak­ing 40,000 peo­ple head for shelters.
It was the strongest of about 20 typhoons to affect the coun­try this …

RAYNET dur­ing floods and chill 

With tem­per­a­tures expect­ed to fall below freez­ing in many parts of the Unit­ed King­dom, it brings even more wor­ry to res­i­dents in the flood­ed areas.

As recent rain trav­els through the riv­er sys­tems, tax­ing bridges and other …