Glob­al Sim­u­lat­ed Emer­gency Test (Glob­alSET)

This April 18, 2009, is the Ama­teur Radio Inter­na­tion­al Day, with the theme “Radio Ama­teur, Your Resource in Dis­as­ter and Emer­gency Communications”.
Also, on this day, IARU Region 1 invites the HQ-Sta­­tions of all IARU…

Aus­tralian bush­fire disaster
The worst nat­ur­al dis­as­ter in Australia’s post-Euro­­pean set­tle­ment his­to­ry occurred on 7 Feb­ru­ary 2009, a day now known as Black Saturday.
On that day there were record high tem­per­a­tures, sin­gle dig­it humid­i­ty and strong winds up to …

The next IARU EmComm Par­ty on the Air is sched­uled for the 8th of Novem­ber between 0400 and 0800 hours UTC. The time of each exer­cise changes to allow more sta­tions to par­tic­i­pate from around the world as well …

Glob­al Sim­u­lat­ed Emer­gency Test – Novem­ber 2008

IARU Region 1 invites the HQ-Sta­­tions of all IARU mem­ber soci­eties and sta­tions of Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Groups to par­tic­i­pate in a Glob­al Sim­u­lat­ed Emer­gency Test on Sat­ur­day Novem­ber 8th, 2008 04.00 – 08.00 UTC…

Chi­na earth­quake report to GAREC-08 

The emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions pro­vid­ed by China’s radio ama­teurs in the after­math of the dev­as­tat­ing mag­ni­tude 8 Sichuan earth­quake has now end­ed, although some remain on stand­by for rapid re-acti­­va­­tion if needed.
IARU Region 3 …