GAREC-2009
Tokyo Aug 24-25

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

From http://www.rientola.fi/oh3ag/garec/

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.

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 http://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.

Please visit one of the following links for the General Information:
http://www.jarl.or.jp/garec-2009/
http://www.iaru-r3.org/garec-2009/

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

The GAREC-2009 EmComms Across Borders program is available at http://www.rientola.fi/oh3ag/garec/