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IARU to promote emergency communication on 18 November and Hamnet will be thereThe IARU Region 1 will promote emergency communication with a Region wide exercise on 18 November 2006. Seppo Sisatto, OH1VR, the coordinator for Emergency Communication for the IARU Region 1, said that the objectives of this exercise are to increase the interest among member societies in emergency communication, to test how usable the selected frequencies are across Region 1 and 3 and to create an opportunity for practice for international emergency communication between Region 1 member societies and special emergency communication groups. Seppo said that the event is not a contest but rather an emergency communications exercise. The exercise, or EmCom party as he calls it, will take place simultaneously on all 3 the selected emergency frequencies namely 7 060, 14 300 and 21 360 kHz in the 40, 20 and 15 metre bands. In this exercise, the 17 and 80 metre band frequencies will not be used. This exercise will take place between 11:00 and 15:00 UTC on Saturday the 18th November 2006. The rules of the exercise can be viewed on www.sarl.org.za, click on Hamnet. Francois Botha, the National Director of Hamnet, The South African Radio League's Emergency Communications group, invites amateurs to participate by establishing a network of as many South African stations as possible during the exercise. For any further information, please contact Francois at 011 670-5260 or by e-mail to jfbotha@iburst.co.za. A follow-up exercise is planned for March/April 2007.
Source: The South African Radio League
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