ARLA/CLUSTER: Conferencia GAREC 2014 vai ter lugar no próximo mês no Alabama, EUA

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

GAREC 2014 next month in Alabama USA

The ARRL Alabama Section and the Huntsville Hamfest Association are
proud to announce that the 2014 Global Amateur Radio Emergency
Communications (GAREC) Conference will return to Huntsville, Alabama
August 14-15

The conference will be held in connection with the 2014 ARRL
Southeastern Division Convention/Annual Huntsville Hamfest.
The Huntsville Hamfest will be held on Saturday, August 16 and Sunday,
August 17, at the Von Braun Convention Center in Huntsville.

The conference will focus on the application of advanced technologies
in emergency communications. All interested Amateur Radio operators
and professionals are invited to attend.

In 2005, the first Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications
(GAREC) Conference was organized on the initiative of Seppo Sisatto,
OH1VR in Tampere, Finland. Following the success of this event and the
increased interest in international and regional cooperation on
emergency communications, GAREC conferences established themselves as
annual events.

For each conference, an organizing committee works together with a
local host, and International Amateur Radio Union (IARU)
representatives participate in the event. In its 2009 meeting in
Christchurch, New Zealand, the IARU Administrative Council defined the
relationship between GAREC and IARU by adopting the following
recommendations contained in the Statement of the GAREC-2009
Conference:
"GAREC 2009 recommends that GAREC conferences should continue to be
held in locations throughout the world to the extent possible and
should maintain the character of GAREC as an informal meeting among
representatives of IARU member societies and of Amateur Radio
emergency communications groups within or outside of the respective
National IARU Member Society, serving as a forum for the exchange of
experience and as an advisory body for the work on emergency
communications of the IARU."

http://www.iaru.org/garec.html

Source - ARRL ARES E-Letter