Argen­tine radio ama­teurs respond to flood­ing emergency
Jorge, LU1AS reports that the Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Ser­vice of Argenti­na are oper­at­ing fol­low­ing heavy flood­ing in the cities of Buenos Aires and La Pla­ta. The fre­quen­cies that are being used on 40 …

Philip­pines on alert for incom­ing storm
The trop­i­cal storm Crising men­ac­ing The Philip­pines arch­i­pel­ago has acti­vat­ed the Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Ser­vice (ARES) with 7.095 MHz and local nets han­dling urgent traffic.
The Philip­pine Ama­teur Radio Asso­ci­a­tion (PARA) …

Glob­al Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Con­fer­ence — 2013
The Glob­al Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Con­fer­ence (GAREC) is the pre­mier annu­al event attend­ed by those with an inter­est in ama­teur radio pro­vid­ing emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions dur­ing train­ing exer­cis­es or in response to disasters. …

Tas­man­ian Bush­fire Disaster
WICEN Tas­ma­nia (South), assist­ed by oth­er trained south­ern region radio ama­teurs, is pro­vid­ing 24 hour sup­port for fire­fight­ing activ­i­ties as sev­er­al fires con­tin­ue to burn.
At least 100 prop­er­ties have been destroyed and thou­sands of peo­ple are left …

Anoth­er storm dis­as­ter ends in the Philippines
Spare a thought for those who spent a ner­vous, very wet and windy Christ­mas peri­od as Trop­i­cal Storm Quin­ta went through the south of the Philip­pines, in areas try­ing to recov­er from Typhoon …