Disasters cannot be avoided, but efforts can be made to reduce death, injuries and property damages through better communications andudbetter planning to deal with it before it happen. Thus we need to adopt available technology, like the Amateur Radio Communication Technologyud(ACT), to face this problem.These include providing awareness, training and support for the communities who adopt the technology for EmergencyudCommunication (EC).Through having more qualified Amateur Radio Communities (ARC) in the adoption of the ARCT, we would be able to improve the communication before, during and after the disasters struck.There are many challenges and issues in the adoption of the ARCT thatudwould part of this study.This article also describes several case studies of communication failure during Hurricane Katrina (2005) in the USA, as well as disasters in several other countries and Malaysia.The tragedies ledudto failure of existing communication infrastructure, and were reprieved byudthe help of the voluntary ARC to support the relief agencies in the evacuation and assistance the disaster victims.Therefore, this article willudhighlight the significant issues that influence the adoption of ARCT in EC.
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