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<DIV align=center><FONT face=Verdana></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>Kristalina
Georgieva</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV align=center><FONT face=Tahoma>European Commissioner for International
Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response.</FONT><BR></DIV>
<H1>European Commissioner writes about Amateur Radio</H1>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma><STRONG>Kristalina Georgieva</STRONG>, European
Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis
Response, has written about Amateur Radio in her blog.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>She says:</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>The amateur radio service provides flexible networks that
are independent of vulnerable infrastructures like telephone cables or GSM
antennae, and transmit in frequencies that are not easily overloaded.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Radio operators are aware of their potential in case of
crisis and have established well coordinated structures for emergency response
that provided vital services during the Tsunami in 2004, the hurricanes Rita and
Katrina in 2005, or more recently, during the earthquakes of L’Aquila, Haiti and
Chile.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>Read the full blog article at<BR></FONT><A
href="http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/georgieva/the-wave-heroes/" target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://blogs.ec.europa.eu/georgieva/the-wave-heroes/</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>ARRL - European Radio Societies Exhibit in European
Parliament </FONT><A
href="http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-exhibition-reflects-unity-in-europe-european-radio-societies-exhibit-in-european-parli"
target=_blank><BR><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://www.arrl.org/news/amateur-radio-exhibition-reflects-unity-in-europe-european-radio-societies-exhibit-in-european-parli</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>ARISS ham radio contact planned with European School in
European Parliament, Brussels<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2010/ariss_event_2704.htm"
target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2010/ariss_event_2704.htm</FONT></A></P>
<P><FONT face=Tahoma>IARU Region 1 Exhibition in European
Parliament<BR></FONT><A
href="http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2010/iaru_r1_exhibition.htm"
target=_blank><FONT
face=Tahoma>http://www.southgatearc.org/news/april2010/iaru_r1_exhibition.htm</FONT></A></P></BODY></HTML>