The Friedrichshafen Ham­fest in Ger­many on June 24–26 is to have an IARU Region 1 ses­sion about radio ama­teurs involved in emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions around the world. 

Infor­ma­tion is being gath­ered by IARU Region 1 Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Coor­di­na­tor, Greg Mossop G0DUB. …

Mod­ern soci­ety depends enor­mous­ly on elec­tric pow­er to func­tion whether in the home, retail and com­merce, indus­try or just the facil­i­ties of traf­fic sig­nals and safe­ty light­ing at night. 

An exer­cise on June 8 had a pow­er out­age sce­nario in the …

Author­i­ties held earth­quake drills nation­wide on Thurs­day April 21, in prepa­ra­tion train­ing for a dis­as­ter, and the Philip­pines Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion (PARA) HERO net­work was involved. 

HERO stands for Ham Emer­gency Radio Oper­a­tions and is the net­work that …

Fol­low­ing the 7.5 mag­ni­tude earth­quake cen­tred near the coast of Ecuador that has claimed more than 400 lives so far, and the fre­quen­cy 7.060 MHz is being used as radio ama­teurs han­dle emer­gency traffic. 

The earth­quake on April 16 caused …

Fol­low­ing the 7.5 mag­ni­tude earth­quake cen­tred near the coast of Ecuador that has claimed more than 400 lives so far, and the fre­quen­cy 7.060 MHz is being used as radio ama­teurs han­dle emer­gency traffic.

The earth­quake on April 16 caused …