disaster – HAMRADIO

Ham radio provides link during power outage disaster

Ham Radio NewsBy CQDX.ru November 12, 2011

Amateur radio operators are still assisting with disaster communications, after last weekend’s snowstorm and massive power blackouts that followed. The storm, which dumped more than a foot of wet snow on many areas, brought down tree limbs and power lines, and left more than 700 thousand Connecticut homes in the dark. For ham radio, the…

Japan earthquake – ICOM and Kenwood

Ham Radio NewsBy CQDX.ru March 17, 2011

Both ICOM and Kenwood have issued statements concerning the affect of the earthquake on their factories. It appears Icom’s facilities at Osaka and Wakayama are in the south of the country and Kenwood’s primary office facilities in Yokohama and Hachioji are to the south and west of the quake’s epicentre. Kenwood’s primary manufacturing facility is…