Emergency Communications

• Introduction
  By Hans Zimmermann, F/HB9AQS, IARU International Coordinator for Emergency Communications

• Update January 2006

• Presentation

• Terms of Reference

• Handout

• The China earthquake presentation (MS PowerPoint 9.3MB)

• Resources
  1. Emergency Center of Activity Frequencies
  2. Third Party Traffic Handling in Emergency Situations
  3. Radiocommunications in Emergency and Disaster Situations
  4. The ITU has made significant portions of the 2005 edition of the Handbook on Emergency Telecommunications available for free download in English, French, and Spanish. Go to http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/emergencytelecoms/publications.html for more information.
  5. Emergency Telecommunications in the ITU
  6. Basic Emergency Telecommunications course of the ITU
  7. Memorandum of Understanding between ITU and IARU
  8. Memorandum of Understanding between IFRC and IARU

• GAREC-2008
  GAREC-08 took place Thursday, 26 and Friday, 27 June 2008 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, in combination with HamRadio 2008 (27-29 June) in the conference center of the Friedrichshafen Messe, Room "Oesterreich".

• GAREC-2007
  The Statement of GAREC-07
  GAREC-07 took place in Huntsville, Alabama, USA, on 16 and 17 August 2007, the days just before the annual Huntsville Hamfest and the 2007 ARRL National Convention. Some of the presentations made during the conference are available at gaiss.tssg.org/GAREC07 and more information can also be found at arrl-al.org/GAREC07.htm.
  A report about GAREC-07 is available at arrl.org/news/stories/2007/08/24/102/

• GAREC-2005 and GAREC-2006
  The first and the second Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conferences took place in Tampere, Finland, in 2005 and in 2006. Presentations, documents and pictures from both conferences are available here.

• The Tampere Convention
  1. What this international treaty means for Emergency Communications Provided by the Amateur Radio Service
  2. Guidelines for Accession to the Convention
  3. The text of the Convention
  4. The list of countries having signed and ratified or acceded the Convention