The Fed­er­al Emer­gency Agency (FEMA) and the Amer­i­can Radio Relay League (ARRL) have signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing that recog­nis­es Ama­teur Radio can be use­ful in a disaster. 

FEMA Admin­is­tra­tor Craig Fugate KK4INZ, and ARRL…

Fol­low­ing Thai­land’s worst flood­ing in 2011 that killed 800 peo­ple, affect­ed near­ly 14 mil­lion and dis­rupt­ed the econ­o­my, the famed HS0AC Ama­teur Radio sta­tion is now com­plete with a meet­ing facil­i­ty at the Asian Insti­tute of Technology. 

The dev­as­tat­ing flood­ing …

The Town of High Riv­er expe­ri­enced one of Canada’s great­est nat­ur­al dis­as­ters in June of 2013. With lit­tle warn­ing the riv­er over­flowed its banks and raced across town destroy­ing busi­ness­es, homes, infra­struc­ture and lives. 

Ham radio oper­a­tors from the Foothills Ama­teur …

The Nation­al Field Day & Emer­gency Pre­pared­ness event in India occurs on June the 7th and 8th and is an excel­lent oppor­tu­ni­ty to test out field stations. 

It includes a con­test exchange between sta­tions on the 160, 80, 40, 20, …

The worst flood­ing in 120 years saw the Balka­ns receive three months of rain­fall in three days in May, killing dozens of peo­ple in Ser­bia, Croa­t­ia, and Bosnia-Herze­­gov­­i­na. The emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­vid­ed by radio ama­teurs helped coor­di­nate the res­cue efforts.…