A mighty 8.2‑magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of northern Chile late Tuesday, April 1ST, triggering small landslides, cutting power and generating a tsunami. From Santiago, colleague Dino Besomi, Area G Director, informed: “Luckily (for us), the earthquake affected the northern part …

A General Assembly of members was held last February 26 to elect the new Board of Directors of CRAG for the 2014 – 2015 period. The members of the new Board are: PRESIDENT: Marco Tulio Gudiel – TG9AGD VICEPRESIDENT: Stephen Wheelock – TG9AWS SECRETARY: Edgar …

With Juan de la Cruz Rodríguez, YN1J, president of Club de Radio Experimentadores de Nicaragua (CREN), as this year’s General Secretary, the Federation of Radio Amateurs of Central America (FRACAP) held its 53^rd. annual convention in Montelimar, Nicaragua on November …

Special event station KP4AO Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will be on the air Sunday, November 10, 1230 – 2000 UTC. “We will be on the air commemorating our 50^th anniversary of Radio Astronomy Science,” explains Angel M. Vazquez, WP3R, the head …

One of the most important achievements of the IARU Region 2 General Assembly held in Cancun, Mexico, last September 2013 was the revision of band plans. Band plans are recommendations for the voluntary use of the frequencies assigned to radio amateurs. They …