WICEN in Blue Moun­tains search
The week long miss­ing of a 23-year old man in the Blue Moun­tains West of Syd­ney is con­tin­u­ing, led by the police res­cue with the help of vol­un­teers includ­ing WICEN mem­bers pro­vid­ing vital com­mu­ni­ca­tions in …

Mon­soon rains spread in India
Flood­ing caused by heavy mon­soon rains con­tin­ue to affect India with the death toll var­i­ous­ly put at 1,000 in the north on the Indo-Tibet bor­der, and now the south of that coun­try is also being deluged.…

Flood­ing in India — update
The cri­sis caused by the dev­as­tat­ing flood in north­ern India last week claim­ing about 900 lives, is con­tin­u­ing to receive help relief through mes­sages from ama­teur radio sta­tions in the affect­ed area.
Jayu S. Bhide VU2JAU…

Typhoon alert — 40m fre­quen­cy in use
The Philip­pine Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion (PARA) has acti­vat­ed its Emer­gency Net to mon­i­tor trop­i­cal typhoon Rumbia (Phils code­name Gorio) as it tra­vers­es the East­ern Visayas Region in the gen­er­al direc­tion of the …

GAREC 2013 sum­ma­ry held in Zurich, Switzer­land, 26 ‑27 June 2013, from Greg Mossop G0DUB, Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Co-Ordi­­na­­tor at IARU Region 1.

The ninth Glob­al Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Con­fer­ence, GAREC-2013, took place in Zurich, Switzer­land host­ed by …