Deadly Typhoon heads back
The Philippine Amateur Radio Association (PARA) has reactivated its emergency net for Typhoon Pablo (international name Bopha) because its path has changed and may hit the archipelago again.
Vice Chief Operating Officer of PARA, Ramon …
Category: Disaster Communications
Disaster recovery helped by amateur radio
The radio amateur community was prepared when a super typhoon unleashed its fury on the Philippines, uprooting trees, snapping power lines, sparking landslides, cancelling flights and ferries sending 40,000 people to shelters. Claiming more than …
Hams provide emergency communications
Typhoon Bopha (local name Pablo) has hit The Philippines uprooting trees, downing power lines, sparking landslides and making 40,000 people head for shelters.
It was the strongest of about 20 typhoons to affect the country this …
RAYNET during floods and chill
With temperatures expected to fall below freezing in many parts of the United Kingdom, it brings even more worry to residents in the flooded areas.
As recent rain travels through the river systems, taxing bridges and other …
The new well equipped Permanent Commission of Contingencies (COPECO) has opened in San Pedro Sula, Honduras for the region. This is one of the five new regional and logistic centres of COPECO.
The new national project has …