Emergency Communications

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

• Update January 2006

• Presentation

• Terms of Reference

• Handout

• Global SET

• 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

• EmComms across Borders

  Welcome to GAREC-2009!

  The Fifth Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications (GAREC)
  Conference will be held on 24 - 25 August 2009, in connection with the JARL Ham Fair at Tokyo Big Sight, Ariake, Tokyo Japan. The Japan Amateur Radio League (JARL) hosts the Conference.

  The Theme of the GAREC-2009 will be “Emergency Communications across Borders”. The program will include presentations about operations during disasters that occurred since last year’s conference and discussions about new developments in technology and their application in emergency communications. The detailed program will be published in late April.

  All Amateur Radio Operators interested in Emergency Communications are invited to participate. The fifth GAREC continues the work of its four forerunners: After the first and the second GAREC in Tampere, Finland, the third GAREC in Huntsville, Alabama, USA, and the fourth GAREC in 2008 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, this year’s event will be the first GAREC conference in IARU Region 3. The proceedings and the statements of the 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 conferences can be found at the GAREC web site indicated below. Emergency Telecommunications are, by the way, also the theme of this year’s World Amateur Radio Day (WARD-09) on 18 April, see www.iaru.org/worldAmRadioDay.html.

  The Organizing Committee for GAREC-2009 consists of Seppo Sisatto OH1VR, and Jay Oka JA1TRC. Members of the Program Committee are Keigo Komuro JA1KAB, Jim Linton VK3PC, and Hans Zimmermann, F5VKP/HB9AQS. Registration will start early May.

  For details please visit the GAREC web-site at URL http://www.rientola.fi/oh3ag/garec/index.html.

  Contact: Seppo Sisatto, OH1VR, S.....@uta.fi.

• 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