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11/29/2013 | RAYNET Marks 60 Years

The UK's Amateur Radio emergency communication organization, RAYNET, is 60 years old this month.
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03/20/2009 | Global Simulated Emergency Test Scheduled for April

IARU Region 1 has invited the HQ stations of IARU Member-Societies, as well as the EOCs of Emergency Communications Groups (ECGs), to participate in the 2009 Global Simulated Emergency Test (GlobalSET), on Saturday, April 18, 2009 from 1100-1500 UTC. The
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02/18/2009 | Hams in Australia Assist with Massive Brushfires

In the Australian state of Victoria, Amateur Radio operators have been activated to provide communications links into towns that have had their normal communications destroyed by the bushfires that have decimated the state. Members of the Wireless Institu
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05/07/2008 | Amateur Radio Well Represented at National Hurricane Conference

More than 2000 people attended the 30th Annual National Hurricane Conference in Orlando, Florida March31-April 4. Conference Chairman Max Mayfield stated in his opening remarks that he was pleased to see such a turnout, despite the fact that the 2007 hurr
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