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