Christchurch dis­as­ter a day on
The death toll stands at 75, dozens yet to be res­cued from beneath build­ing rub­ble, and hun­dreds of peo­ple still miss­ing are still the des­per­ate scene 24 hours after an earth­quake struck the Christchurch area of …

Sec­ond quake for Christchurch
Hours ahead face res­cuers fol­low­ing the dev­as­tat­ing, shal­low 6.3 on the Richter scale earth­quake which struck the heav­i­ly pop­u­lat­ed busi­ness area of Greater Christchurch in New Zealand.
There are ini­tial reports of 17 deaths in the …

AREN Dona­tion to sup­port Pak­istan Relief Efforts
In Sep­tem­ber we post­ed about the efforts tak­ing place in Pak­istan to pro­vide com­mu­ni­ca­tions for the flood relief efforts. Recent­ly we were informed that one of the only inter­na­tion­al ship­ments that appears to …

Indone­sian dis­as­ters – update
As the dual nat­ur­al dis­as­ters of an erupt­ing vol­cano and the after­math of a Tsuna­mi con­tin­ue, ORARI (Organ­isasi Amatir Radio Indone­sia) has advised how its mem­bers are pro­vid­ing emer­gency communications.
ORARI Inter­na­tion­al Affairs Coor­di­na­tor, Wis­nu Widjaja …

Tomas through the Carribean
As Hur­ri­cane ‘Tomas’ leaves a trail of destruc­tion in its path and con­tin­ues to pose seri­ous fur­ther threats, the Ama­teur Radio sta­tion at the Nation­al Hur­ri­cane Cen­tre in Mia­mi, WX4NHC is acti­vat­ing on HF and an …