An earth­quake that hit the Yun Nan province in the south­west Chi­na’s mountainous
region on Octo­ber 7, caused a death, injured 336 with 50,000

The 6.6 mag­ni­tude Richter scale earth­quake was respond­ed to main­ly by the
mil­i­tary res­cue force and some …

The big clean-up con­tin­ues in the wake of pow­er­ful Cyclone Hud­hud which affect­ed the Bay of Ben­gal leav­ing a path of dam­age. Some media accounts put the toll at 46 lives.
The area has some of the world’s strongest trop­i­cal cyclones. …

Despite poor weath­er and bad prop­a­ga­tion pre­vail­ing in Malaysia, there were
lessons learned dur­ing the recent sim­u­lat­ed exer­cise on Sep­tem­ber 27, centred
on Sarawak in East Malaysia 9M8, which test­ed Ama­teur Radio’s preparations
for a real disaster. 

The exer­cise, with …

The Inter­na­tion­al Ama­teur Radio Union Region 1 Con­fer­ence in Bul­gar­ia has heard the Ama­teur Radio giv­en dur­ing emer­gen­cies described as “radio mes­sen­gers in times of trou­ble and hope”. 

The mes­sage came from Dr Kristali­na Georgie­va, Euro­pean Union Com­mis­sion­er for Inter­na­tion­al Cooperation, …

The Glob­al Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tion (GAREC) con­fer­ence held in Huntsville Alaba­ma USA shared many infor­ma­tive pre­sen­ta­tions, videos and dis­cus­sions on recent expe­ri­ences plus some media interest. 

Organ­is­er Greg Sar­ratt W4OZK said the local tele­vi­sion sta­tion inter­viewed IARU…