JOTA 2011 — ‘Peace, Envi­ron­ment and Nat­ur­al Disasters’
The theme of the Jam­boree on the Air to be held on the 15–16 Octo­ber is “Peace, Envi­ron­ment and Nat­ur­al Disasters”.
IARU Inter­na­tion­al Coor­di­na­tor for Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Hans Zim­mer­mann F5VKP/ F/…

Earth­quakes in Spain
Two earth­quakes of mag­ni­tudes M4.4 and M5.2 struck the Region of Mur­cia (south­east­ern Spain) in the evening of 11th April, caus­ing at least 8 dead and 167 wound­ed in the town of Lor­ca, due main­ly to …

GAREC 2011
The Glob­al Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Con­fer­ence (GAREC) 2011 will be held in con­junc­tion with the IARU Region 1 Gen­er­al Con­fer­ence in Sun City, South Africa from 15th to 19th August. As GAREC has to slot in …

The lat­est from Japan
The ama­teur radio activ­i­ty is con­tin­u­ing to help those main­ly with­in the dis­as­ter recov­ery area struck by the worst earth­quake in Japan in 140 years.
IARU Region 3 Sec­re­tary, Ken Yamamo­to JA1CJP said “sev­er­al sta­tions are han­dling medium …