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Emerging requirements for emcomm

Recent­ly we had sev­er­al earth­quakes and storms. Thank you for your prompt reports. What has emerged is that being request­ed are needs for a lit­tle more information. 

The ques­tions being asked include who is involved (names, call­signs and loca­tion), if

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Emergency Communications in two disasters

When a fierce cyclone came ashore in India, and a dev­as­tat­ing earth­quake struck the Philip­pines, it was radio ama­teurs who pro­vid­ed vital communications. 

As Cyclone Phailin head­ed towards Indi­a’s Bay of Ben­gal author­i­ties quick­ly evac­u­at­ed dan­ger­ous areas. The Ama­teur Radio

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IARU R2 looks at emcomm

The Inter­na­tion­al Ama­teur Radio Union Region 2 has run its first Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Work­shop focus­ing on aware­ness, coop­er­a­tion and ama­teur radio response to emer­gen­cies and disasters.

The two-day work­shop was held in held in Can­cun, Mex­i­co, on Sep­tem­ber 24–25 in …

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Earthquake in Pakistan

An earth­quake mea­sur­ing 7.8 on the Richter scale struck on Tues­day in the Balochis­tan province that has claimed more than 330 lives in the remote and sparse­ly pop­u­lat­ed south-west­­ern area. 

Imran Mujta­ba AP2MI reports that mem­bers of the Pak­istan Ama­teur Radio

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