Ital­ian Earthquake

23:30 6th April, the sit­u­a­tion is report­ed as fol­lows by Alber­to IK1YLO;
“The Dipar­ti­men­to Pro­tezione Civile is only ask­ing spe­cial­ist vol­un­teers to attend the dis­as­ter area. They are involv­ing only 5.000 vol­un­teers from very spe­cial­ized teams used …

Glob­al Sim­u­lat­ed Emer­gency Test (Glob­alSET)

This April 18, 2009, is the Ama­teur Radio Inter­na­tion­al Day, with the theme “Radio Ama­teur, Your Resource in Dis­as­ter and Emer­gency Communications”.
Also, on this day, IARU Region 1 invites the HQ-Sta­­tions of all IARU…

Aus­tralian bush­fire disaster
The worst nat­ur­al dis­as­ter in Australia’s post-Euro­­pean set­tle­ment his­to­ry occurred on 7 Feb­ru­ary 2009, a day now known as Black Saturday.
On that day there were record high tem­per­a­tures, sin­gle dig­it humid­i­ty and strong winds up to …