After caus­ing dam­age at least 23 deaths in the Solomon Islands on April 5, the ini­tial­ly rat­ed cat­e­go­ry five Trop­i­cal Cyclone Ita with winds of 230km/h came ashore near Cook­town late on Fri­day April the 11th in Far North Queensland.…

Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Ser­vice (ARES) vol­un­teers have pro­vid­ed lim­it­ed response
to those man­ag­ing the Sno­homish Coun­ty mud­slide in North­west Washington,
which is a declared state of emergency.
 
Beamed into lounge rooms around the world is the weekend …

The van­ish­ing of the Malaysian Air­line (MAS) Boe­ing 777–200ER jet­lin­er with 239 pas­sen­gers on board is a mys­tery that nine nations are try­ing to solve. 

When flight MH370, ex-Kuala Lumpur bound for Bei­jing, dis­ap­peared from the air traf­fic control …

From nor­mal­ly sun­ny Flori­da comes news that on Mon­day, Jan­u­ary 27 at 1700 hours, dur­ing rare win­ter storms, the Escam­bia Coun­ty Emer­gency Man­age­ment called out the Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Ser­vice (ARES).

It had 46 radio ama­teurs active during …

Mon­soon floods that hit parts of Malaysia and Thai­land appears now to have eased but the big clean-up continues. 

John­ny Tan 9M8DB of the Malaysian Ama­teur Radio Trans­mit­ters’ Soci­ety (MARTS) says the flood­ing is the worst for a …