Hur­ri­cane Matthew began as a trop­i­cal storm near the Wind­ward Islands, but inten­si­fied sev­er­al days lat­er to be a Cat­e­go­ry 4 Hur­ri­cane, unleash­ing its fury and result­ing in hun­dreds of deaths and wide­spread damage. 

It was the first major event …

The 2nd gath­er­ing of those involved emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions for the Amer­i­c­as was held on Octo­ber 11, with 30 per cent more par­tic­i­pants this time when com­pared with Mex­i­co in 2013. 

The work­shop co-chaired by the IARU Region 2 Coor­di­na­tor Cesar Pio …

The Cat­e­go­ry 4 storm came ashore in Haiti to cause dam­age and deaths as it moved through Cuba, the Bahamas and parts of the Domini­can before head­ing to Flori­da in the USA. 

Matthew had been threat­en­ing for a week …

A trend among groups of radio ama­teurs involved in emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions is the use of dis­as­ter sce­nar­ios to test equip­ment and learn lessons from what went right dur­ing an exer­cise, and what could be improved.

Recent­ly a num­ber of such …

Twice in August WICEN New South Wales was acti­vat­ed to assist in search­es for 

miss­ing peo­ple, as part of its com­mu­ni­ca­tion spe­cial­i­sa­tion with The NSW Vol­un­teer Res­cue Asso­ci­a­tion under the State Emer­gency and Res­cue Man­age­ment Act. 

The first acti­va­tion on August …