Big twister hits Oklahoma
The trail of destruc­tion and dam­age caused by the tor­na­do in Okla­homa on May the 20th that left a death toll of 24, has been beamed into our lounge-rooms by numer­ous tele­vi­sion programs.
The Amer­i­can Red …

Glob­al ‘Sim­u­lat­ed Emer­gency Test (SET)’

A Glob­al ‘Sim­u­lat­ed Emer­gency Test’ is sched­uled for the 3rd of May between 1800 and 2200 hours UTC, this is the new name for the ‘Emcom Par­ties on the Air’ held in …

Earth­quake in China
A week ago yes­ter­day (Sat­ur­day) a major earth­quake hit China’s south­west rur­al area of Ya’an, which has now left 200 dead, injured about 12,000 and many more peo­ple homeless.
Fan Bin BA1RB report­ed that ama­teur radio oper­a­tors swung …

Chi­na earth­quake report #3
The res­cue and relief efforts after Sat­ur­day’s south­west Chi­na Ya’an earth­quake is con­tin­u­ing with the num­ber of lives lost offi­cial­ly at 188 peo­ple, 25 are miss­ing and 11,460 injured.
While radio ama­teurs con­tin­ue to help with …

China’s earth­quake – update #2
The earth­quake has killed 179 peo­ple and injured 6986. Hun­dreds of ama­teur radio oper­a­tors went to Ya’an help­ing dis­as­ter relief.
The dis­as­ter hap­pened as the Glob­al Sim­u­lat­ed Emer­gency Test was under­way head­ed in Chi­na by …