Glob­al Sim­u­lat­ed Emer­gency Test – Novem­ber 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 Novem­ber 8th, 2008 04.00 – 08.00 UTC.
The oper­a­tion will take place on and 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 using all modes.
Please remem­ber that this is not a con­test, it is an emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions exercise!
Fol­low­ing the rec­om­men­da­tion of the GAREC con­fer­ences, par­tic­i­pat­ing sta­tions are request­ed to use /D in their call­sign (D=distress/disaster) where per­mit­ted by their licens­ing administration.
Traf­fic may be passed on voice (SSB), Data or CW modes. Each IARU Region will have a HQ sta­tion oper­at­ing on voice. HQ sta­tions will be QRV simul­ta­ne­ous­ly on all CoA fre­quen­cies appro­pri­ate to their region +- QRM.
To prac­tice relay­ing mes­sages, each par­tic­i­pat­ing sta­tion is allowed to send six (6) mes­sages: three dur­ing the first two hours and three more dur­ing the last two hours of the test.
After send­ing their own mes­sages, par­tic­i­pat­ing sta­tions should start to relay mes­sages of oth­er sta­tions, when a mes­sage has been relayed twice it should then be sent to the HQ sta­tion of their own region. It is very use­ful if mes­sages ‘jump” between coun­tries and/or Regions.
Par­tic­i­pat­ing sta­tions should call ‘CQ GLOBALSET’ giv­ing their call­sign and organ­i­sa­tion — (ARES, RAYNET, AREN, NETMAR etc. ).
Each par­tic­i­pat­ing sta­tion will send up to six mes­sages to their Region­al HQ station.
— The call­sign of the send­ing station
— Mes­sage num­ber – 1, 2 or 3 in the first half of the exer­cise, 4, 5 or 6 in the sec­ond half.
— Bands avail­able for use – use the meter band des­ig­na­tion NOT frequency.
— Num­ber of oper­a­tors at the station
— Emer­gency pow­er avail­able – 1=None, 2=Battery, 3=Generator (of any
kind), 4= Bat­tery and Generator.
— Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Group or Nation­al Society
— As mes­sages are relayed, add via… via… to show the call­signs of sta­tions which have relayed this message.
A one-char­ac­ter pre­fix will be used before each part of the mes­sage in order to make it eas­i­er to decode.
Where: — M(ike) = Mes­sage num­ber — B(ravo) = Band avail­able — O(scar) = Oper­a­tors — P(apa) = Pow­er available
When a sta­tion oth­er than an HQ sta­tion receives a mes­sage, it should relay the mes­sage towards the des­ti­na­tion in what­ev­er way it can.
Con­clu­sion: Please send your logs with com­ments, pic­tures and sug­ges­tions for future exer­cis­es to; globalset08@raynet-hf.net as soon as pos­si­ble after the SET. A brief report of the event is required for the IARU Region 1 con­fer­ence in Cav­tat on 16th Novem­ber but the full report is hoped to be avail­able in Decem­ber 2008.
To be fair to all regions we use three dif­fer­ent time slots for the exer­cise, the next exer­cise will be on May 2nd 2009 at 11.00 ‑15.00 UTC with the event in Novem­ber 2009 being at 18.00 – 22.00 UTC.
Thanks for your sup­port of emer­gency communications.
— Greg Mossop G0DUB, Glob­alSET Organiser.