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 Connecticut Section of the Amateur Radio Emergency Service...
In the Congo, short wave radio is being used to provide an early warning network for isolated rural communities.
The NGO Invisible Children have been installing an HF Early Warning Radio Network that enables local communities to provide information that is fed into an online graphical database that can be displayed on PC's or smartphones around the world, see http://www.lracrisistracker.com/ This...