Typhoon wreaks hav­oc on Korea
As the pow­er­ful storm Typhoon Bolaven bat­tered South Korea radio ama­teurs joined the response and recov­ery efforts to min­imise the toll and damage.
The state dis­as­ter man­age­ment agency report­ed deaths as the storm, the strongest to …

Floods in the Philip­pines hit Manilla
The Philip­pine Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion acti­vat­ed the Ham Emer­gency Radio Oper­a­tions (HERO) on two metre and 40 metres pass­ing essen­tial traf­fic dur­ing the recent wide­spread flood­ing in Manila.
The news media reports …

India black­out affects millions.
In the world’s worst black­out in recent times pow­er was cut to 700 mil­lion peo­ple in India.
Jayu Bhide VU2JAU reports that the North-East grid failed due to a fault in the plant and 20 states were …

Flood­ing hits Chi­nese capital
Heavy rain, described as the worst in the area in more than 60 years, hit Bei­jing last week report­ed­ly killing 37 peo­ple. The com­mer­cial com­mu­ni­ca­tion was oper­at­ing as nor­mal in the urban area. 

As part of their …

Atlantic Hur­ri­cane Sea­son 2012
There have been four ‘named storms’ in the Atlantic already this year and though none have made the news it is time for the reminder that Ama­teur Radio con­tin­ues to play a part in gath­er­ing and distributing …