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GAREC

What is GAREC ?

In 2005, the first Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications (GAREC) Conference was organized on the initiative of Seppo Sisatto, OH1VR in Tampere, Finland. Following the success of this event and the increased interest in international and regional cooperation on emergency communications, GAREC Conferences established themselves as annual events

For each conference, an organizing committee works together with a local host, and IARU representatives participate in the event. In its 2009 meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand, the IARU Administrative Council has now defined the relationship between GAREC and IARU, by adopting the following recommendations contained in the Statement of the GAREC-2009 Conference:

“GAREC 2009 recommends, that GAREC conferences should continue to be held in locations throughout the world to the extent possible and should maintain the character of GAREC as an informal meeting among representatives of IARU member societies and of Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Groups within or outside of the respective National IARU Member Society, serving as a forum for the exchange of experience and as an advisory body for the work on emergency communications of the IARU.”


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GAREC 2015

GAREC 2015, originally scheduled for Tampere, Finland, has been cancelled.
Plans for a future GAREC will be announced in due course.

GAREC 2014
The Tenth Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference (GAREC-2014), took place in Huntsville, Alabama, USA. 14 -15 August 2014.  It was hosted by ARRL Alabama Section and the Huntsville Hamfest Association and was attended by delegates from all three ITU regions.
Summary
  • Issues for discussion [PDF]
  • Floods in the SE Region of Brazil [PDF]
  • Summary Report [PDF]
  • Emergency Communications Report [PDF]
  • IARU Reg 3 Report [PDF]
Presentations
  • Floods Espiritu Santo, Brazil, Dec 2013 [PPT]
  • IARU R3 Typhoon [PPT]
  • MARS [PPT]
  • Emergency Communications Procedures [PDF]
  • Satern in the 21st Century [PDF]
  • Satern in the 21st Century [PPT]
GAREC 2013
In 2013 GAREC returned to IARU Region 1 and was held in Zurich, Switzerland between 25th to 28th June. The conference was timed to precede Europe's largest amateur radio exhibition, HAM RADIO in Friedrichshafen so that people could enjoy both events.
Presentation Speeches
  • Opening Speech  [PDF]
  • Welcome [PDF]
  • Report IARU Region 1 [PDF]
  • Report IARU Region 2  [PDF]
  • Report IARU Region 3  [PDF]
  • German Emergency Communication  [PDF]
  • B-EARS Belgium [PDF]
Summary
  • Summary Report  [PDF]
Presentations
  • Electrical Power Outage [PDF]
  • Swiss Rescue Commission [PDF]
  • Role of ITU Emergency Communication [PDF]
  • Disaster Beacons Project Germany [PDF]
  • Emergency Communication Cologne [PDF]

Pictures
  • Click Here to view pictures of the event
Presentations
  • HAM Net [PDF]
  • RNRE Italy  [PDF]
  • PSK Mail [PDF]
  • WinLink 1 [PDF]
  • WinLink 2 [PDF]
  • "Focus: Mews and Helicopter Safety [PDF]

GAREC 2012
This eighth Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference took place in Port Dickson Malaysia, hosted by the Malaysian Amateur Radio Transmitters Society, and was attended by 17 delegates from nine countries. The theme of the conference was 'One world, One commitment.'

  • GAREC 2012 Statement
  • Safety Organisation and Excercises by the SRAL [PDF]
  • Idea to Share “Open Source”[ppt]
  • Emergency Communication with Calling Frequency & Dispatcher [pdf]
  • IARU Region 1 Emergency Communications report [ppt]
  • Em-Comm Region 3 Presentation [ppt]
  • Rural Training Center –Thailand (RTC-TH) [PDF]


  • Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC) [PDF]
  • SATCOM VSAT Bridging In-Field Communications During
    Emergency Response [PDF]

  • Letter from Hans Zimmermann [doc]
  • GAREC Thoughts [png]
  • GAREC 2013 Presenation [PDF]

GAREC 2011

  • The 7th GAREC – Global Emergency Communications Conference was held in South Africa at the Pilansberg resort called Sun City.  This resort, situated approx. 200 km north west of Johannesburg has 4 hotels, two magnificent golf courses and a major game reserve adjacent to the complex.
  • The hosts for the conference were the South African Radio League and Hamnet – the emergency communications network of the SARL.
  • The Theme of GAREC-2011 was “Building Partnerships”.
  • The chairperson for the conference was Francois Botha – ZS6BUU

GAREC 2011 Materials

  • GAREC Welcome
  • GAREC-2011 Message [doc]
  • GAREC 2011 Statement [doc]
  • GAREC 2011 Attendees [doc]
  • GAREC Organisation [PDF]
  • GAREC 2011 Operating Practices & Procedures [PDF]
  • Report on 7th GAREC Conference [doc]

  • GAREC 2011 Band Planning [PDF]
  • GAREC 2011 Region 1 Report [PDF]
  • GARECE 2011 Region 2 Report [doc]
  • GAREC 2011 Region 3 Report [doc]
  • Disaster Management
  • Amateur Radio Activity at Japan Earthquake and Tsunami
  • GAREC 2011 Voorwoord DARES [doc]
  • Emergency Communication Region 2 Presentation [ppt]
GAREC-2010
GAREC-10 took place in CURACAO on October 11-12, 2010.
The Theme of the Conference was: "Learning through practicing".
The event was organized in cooperation with DARES and VERONA.

THE MISSION: To get Amateur Radio operators to be better prepared for emergency communications and create practices for national and international levels. GAREC is for exchanging information and experiences between all Amateur Radio operators and groups that are interested in EmComms.

THE VISION: To have regular world wide co-operation and understanding between Authorities and Amateur Radio Service on the field of EmComms.

Chairman of the Organizing Committee:
Seppo Sisättö, Ph.D
OH1VR
Ojakatu 3 A 18
33100 Tampere
FINLAND
Tel. +358-50-360 2600
E-mail: seppo.sisatto ( at ) uta.fi
GAREC 2010 Materials
  • GAREC-2010 Statement [PDF]
  • GAREC-2010 Program [PDF]

    Opening Ceremony
    • Opening Speech Verona PJ2BR doc
    • Opening Presentation Mr. Ing Sylvio Emerenciana ppt
    • Opening speech Mr. Ing Sylvio Emerenciana doc

    Activity Reports
  • Activity report IARU R1 G0DUB ppt
  • Activityreport IARU R2 W5MPC pptx
  • Activity report IARU R3 JA1TRC pptx
Earthquakes, Hurricanes & Amateur Radio I
  • Receptor pdf
  • Transmisor pdf
  • vfo pdf
  • Montaje de la placa del Amplificadorado jpg
  • Montaje de la placa del VFO por abajo jpg
  • Montaje de la placa del VFO jpg
  • Top Layer de la placa del Amplificador jpg

Earthquakes, Hurricanes & Amateur Radio II
  • Chile report at GAREC-2010 ppt
  • Haiti report at GAREC-2010 doc

How to organize an EmComm Exercise I
  • GAREC 2010 Organising exercises the DARES way ppt

How to organise an Emcomm Exercise II
  • Finland report GAREC-2010 ppt
  • Soccer World Cup GAREC-2010 ppt

Organisations in Emcomm

  • DARES Overview at GAREC-2010 ppt
  • HAMNET OVERVIEW at GAREC-2010 ppt
  • NIAR Overview at GAREC-2010 ppt

Closing session
  • Announcing GAREC-2011 in South Africa ppt
GAREC-2009
The Fifth Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications (GAREC) Conference took place 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) hosted this year's GAREC.

The Theme of the GAREC-2009 was "Emergency Communications across Borders". The program included 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.


GAREC 2009 Materials
  • BDARA Emcomms ppt
  • CRSA China Disaster Communication 2009 ppt
  • G0DUB CoA Experiences Future ppt
  • G0DUB Emcomms across borders ppt
  • G0DUB GlobalSET09 ppt
  • G0DUB Region1 Report ppt
  • GAREC GAREC-09 STATEMENT doc
  • HARTS-A Report on ARES-6 ppt
  • ICOM ICOM-GAREC ppt
  • IK1YLO FOTO per TOKYO
  • IK1YLO Tokio ppt
  • JARL EmCom ppt
  • OH1VR GAREC 2009 ppt
  • PA1JAV DARES update GAREC 2009 ppt
  • VE6SH Amateur Radio Service as a partner ppt
  • VK3PC Bushfire Australia ppt
  • VK3PC IARU R3 Report GAREC2009 doc
  • VR2/KQ6XA GAREC 2009 panel discussion ppt
  •  VR2/KQ6XA Global ALE High Frequency Network for Emergency Communications GAREC2009 ppt
  • ZL2TAR 2009ns pdf
  • ZL2TAR garec09 doc
  •  ZS6BUU GAREC2009 ppt
  • ZS6BUU IARU R1 2011 ppt
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 2008 Materials
  • GAREC Memorandum of Understanding IFRC - IARU pdf
  • GAREC GAREC 2008 STATEMENT doc
  • OH1VR Safety 2008 - Friedrichshafen ppt
  • OH1VR EmComm Centres Cross the Globe ppt
  • G0DUB Global SET Presentation May08Script doc-file
  • G0DUB GlobalSET08 ppt
  • OH6KN arcala & emcomm 0806 friedricshaven zip
  • CRSA Amateur Radio EmComm in Action - SiChuan Earthquake - Final ppt
  • LA2RR GAREC opening 2008 doc
  • Notfunk Deutschland e.V. Notfunk-Deutschland-presentation doc
  • Notfunk Deutschland e.V. Notfunk-Deutschland-presentation pictures rar
  • SM0FAG SSA 2008 ppt
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.

GAREC-2007 Materials
  • Region 1 Presentation
  • Region 3 Report
  • Media Relations during emergencies/disasters
  • EchoLink/IRLP in EmComm
  • D-STAR
  • SATERN
  • ALE for International Amateur Radio Emergency/Disaster Relief Communication

GAREC-2006

  • GAREC-2006 [PDF]
  • GAREC-2006 Downloadable Materials
  • GAREC-2006 Photos

GAREC-2005
  • GAREC-2005 Downloadable Materials
  • GAREC-2005 Photos

  • Winlink 2000
  • American Red Cross
  • Southern Baptist Disaster Relief
  • Hurricane Katrina AR Relief
  • ARES/RACES Hurricane Katrina
  • Using APRS with existing SAR position reporting systems



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