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Nepal Earthquake — Update 3 May 2015
An announcement is expected today ( Sunday ) of the official end of the international Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) phase with the expectation that USAR teams will start leaving the area shortly. It is however still the case that …
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Nepal Earthquake — Update 30 April 2015
As the time passes the situation in Nepal, hit by a 7.8‑magnitude earthquake over the weekend, seems to be getting worse. Many people are still buried in collapsed buildings and caught in rubble from landslides and there are fears that the …
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Nepal Earthquake — Report from Region 3
The following information has been received from Region 3 this morning. Note that the Nepalese amateurs are working on VHF locally and at the time of the report the external net on HF was on 14.210 MHz. 3 hours ago a Twitter report …
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Radio Amateurs activate as Chile Volcano erupts
The Calbuco volcano in the Los Lagos region of Chile erupted for the first time after 54 years of inactivity, forcing the evacuation of an area of 20 kilometers around the volcano. Some 5,000 residents of the area have been …
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GAREC 2015 Cancelled
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 – …
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