The Atlantic hur­ri­cane dis­as­ters this year left more than 260 dead with $300 bil­lion in dam­ages, mak­ing them the costli­est ever. 

There were three main hur­ri­canes and two oth­ers. Hur­ri­cane Har­vey was the costli­est trop­i­cal cyclone on record. The weath­er system …

Many emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions groups train for deploy­ment in an actu­al dis­as­ter to WITH Ama­teur Radio sup­port­ing emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions for served agen­cies and the community.

With this in mind the Bel­gian ARES (B‑EARS) had a joint exer­cise with the …

The 7.1 earth­quake in Mex­i­co that downed many build­ings and killed more than 250, plus Hur­ri­cane Maria that swept through a num­ber of Caribbean nations, have kept emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions fre­quen­cies busy with coor­di­na­tion and traffic.

Net­works not in the affected …