Emergency Communications GAREC-2009

The Fifth Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications (GAREC) Conference will be held on 24 – 25 August 2009, in connection with the JARL Tokyo 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 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.

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, Seppo.Sisatto@uta.fi