Amateur radio club lends a hand to fire fighters

Source: The Borneo Post MIRI: Miri Amateur Radio Club has joined the battle to douse the stubborn peat fire near the Malaysia-Brunei border by contributing their communication equipment and frequency to Fire and Rescue (Bomba) personnel to overcome communication woes with their operation centre. The radios and repeater station was…

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Why Amateur Radio Emergency Service Are Needed During Disaster

One of the major problems in emergency and disaster is always radio communication and poor coordination in search and rescue. This have been brought up by Dr. Rosidah Ibrahim, Head of Emergency Dept. of Serdang Hospital when she gave her speech at the MAS Emergency Response Convention held at Malaysian…

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