16 April 2008

Global Simulated Emergency Test – May 3rd 2008

IARU Region 1 invites the HQ-Stations of all IARU member societies and stations of Emergency Communications Groups to participate in a Global Simulated Emergency Test.

on Saturday May 3rd, 2008 at 18.00 – 22.00 UTC.

The operation will take place on or near the emergency Centre-of-Activity (CoA) frequencies on 80, 40, 20, 17 and 15 metres (+- QRM).

The objectives of the test are:

1 increase the common interest in emergency communications.

2 test how usable the CoA frequencies are across ITU regions.

3 create practices for international emergency communication and

4 practice the relaying of messages by voice and data modes.

Further information available at
http://www.iaru-r1.org/GlobalsetMay08Rules.pdf