The organisers of the Global Amateur Radio Emergency Conference (GAREC) 2015 have taken the difficult decision to cancel this years conference. The projected attendance for the conference which was to have been held in Tampere, Finland between June 23 – …

Category 5 Cyclone Pam caused severe damage when it hit the Pacific nation of Vanuatu last weekend. Recovery is expected to take a very long time. The idyllic location is a haven for tourists and DXpeditioners, with all who had been there struggling to …

The International Amateur Radio Union Administrative Council has released this guide which has been developed to provide of radio amateurs materials so they may train for emergency events. It also provides individuals who have little or no experience in handling …

The only international conference on Amateur Radio Emergency Communications will be held in June at Tampere, Finland, with the theme of ‘Cooperating with Authorities’. Tampere saw the birth of the annual Global Amateur Radio Emergency Conference (GAREC) in 2005. This …

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 long time in …