[ARRL-OK] Huntsville to Host GAREC 2014

[Mark Conklin via ARRL-OK]

Huntsville to Host 2014 Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference
ARRL.org
06/04/2014
ARRL.org
  
The 2014 Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference (GAREC-2014) will 
take place Thursday and Friday, August 14-15, in conjunction with the Huntsville Hamfest in 
Alabama. The Huntsville Hamfest, August 16-17 at the Von Braun Convention 
Center, is the Southeastern 
Division Convention and a Regional ARRL Centennial Event.

The GAREC conference will focus on the application of advanced technologies 
in emergency communication. All public service-minded Amateurs Radio operators 
and emergency communication professionals are welcome. This will mark the second 
time a GAREC Conference has been held in the US.

The conference agenda and programs are still under development.

The first Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference in 2005 
was organized on the initiative of Seppo Sisatto, OH1VR, and held in Tampere, 
Finland. Following the success of that event and increased interest in 
international and regional cooperation on emergency communication, GAREC conferences have 
become established annual events. For each conference, an organizing committee 
works with a local host, and International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) representatives 
participate in the event.

At its 2009 meeting in Christchurch, New Zealand, the IARU Administrative 
Council formally defined the relationship between GAREC and the IARU by adopting 
the several 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.”

GAREC 2014 for 
GAREC 2014 on the ARRL website. Contact Greg Sarratt, W4OZK, for 
additional information.

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