Carribean Tropical Storm Earl — Emergency activities
Tropical Storm Earl is currently heading across Central America affecting the countries of Honduras, Guatemala, Belize and Mexico. IARU Region 2 has requested that attention is drawn to the following frequencies used by nets in North and Central America to track …
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Hams ready for Philippines typhoon
The following information was received from IARU Region 3 on Friday morning. With poor propagation, please take care in the area of known Philippines emergency communications frequencies. “Ham Emergency Radio Operators (HERO) was set this morning at 2145 UTC ( Thursday …
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Emergency Comms activities at Friedrichshafen 2016
The 41st HamRadio Exhibition at Friedrichshafen was also the venue for two meetings for Emergency Communicators which were well received. On Friday 24th June, the first IARU Region 1 Emergency Communications meeting was held in the English language with an average …
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Radio Amateurs involved in Cyprus forest fire response
Radio Amateurs in Cyprus are currently active in emergency activities tackling the biggest forest fire the island has ever dealt with in the Solea region. Activity is currently using only the VHF band, mainly the local RV48 (R0) and RV58 …
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Netherlands/Belgium ‘Power Failure’ Exercise 8 June 2016
On Wednesday 8th June between 1800 – 1930UTC Radio Amateurs from the DARES Emergency Group in the Netherlands and B‑EARS in Belgium will be taking part in an exercise simulating a Power Outage in the south of the Netherlands and part …
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