Dis­as­ter relief ser­vices with some radio ama­teurs pro­vid­ing emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions have respond­ed to the erupt­ing Fuego Vol­cano in the Repub­lic of Guatemala of Cen­tral America.

The Club of Ama­teur Radio of Guatemala (CRAG) has TG0AA acti­vat­ed on HF…

After days of high tem­per­a­tures, low humid­i­ty and wind that fanned a large bush­fire in the Ade­laide Hills of South Aus­tralia, comes rain with cool­er weath­er giv­ing relief to the area.
The fire that began ear­ly in Jan­u­ary cov­ered more than …

No rest for the busy HERO (Ham Emer­gency Radio Oper­a­tions) net­work which has again acti­vat­ed for the storm Jang­mi (Seni­ang) that made land­fall in Min­danao Island on Decem­ber 29 and crossed cen­tral areas caus­ing mas­sive floods and landslides. 

At least …

Mon­soon floods that hit parts of Malaysia and Thai­land appears now to have eased but the big clean-up continues. 

John­ny Tan 9M8DB of the Malaysian Ama­teur Radio Trans­mit­ters’ Soci­ety (MARTS) says the flood­ing is the worst for a …

Often the land and marine resources of HAMNET, the Nation­al Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Divi­sion of the South African Radio League (SARL), is called to pro­vide com­mu­ni­ca­tions and trained people.
The emer­gen­cies have includ­ed adverse weath­er events, search­es for …