The Fifth Glob­al Ama­teur Radio Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions (GAREC) Con­fer­ence will be held on 24 — 25 August 2009, in con­nec­tion with the JARL Tokyo Ham Fair at Tokyo Big Sight, Ari­ake, Tokyo Japan. The Japan Ama­teur Radio League (JARL) hosts the Conference. 

The Theme of the GAREC-2009 will be “Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions across Bor­ders” The pro­gram will include pre­sen­ta­tions about oper­a­tions dur­ing dis­as­ters that occurred since last year’s con­fer­ence and dis­cus­sions about new devel­op­ments in tech­nol­o­gy and their appli­ca­tion in emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions. The detailed pro­gram will be pub­lished in late April. 

All Ama­teur Radio Oper­a­tors inter­est­ed in Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions are invit­ed to par­tic­i­pate. The fifth GAREC con­tin­ues the work of its four forerunners: 
After the first and the sec­ond GAREC in Tam­pere, Fin­land, the third GAREC in Huntsville, Alaba­ma, USA, and the fourth GAREC in 2008 in Friedrichshafen, Ger­many, this year’s event will be the first GAREC con­fer­ence in IARU Region 3. 
The pro­ceed­ings and the state­ments of the 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 con­fer­ences can be found at the GAREC web site.
Emer­gency Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions are, by the way, also the theme of this year’s World Ama­teur Radio Day (WARD-09) on 18 April 2009, see http://www.iaru.org/worldAmRadioDay.html.

The Orga­niz­ing Com­mit­tee for GAREC-2009 con­sists of 
Sep­po Sisat­to OH1VR, and Jay Oka JA1TRC.
Mem­bers of the Pro­gram Com­mit­tee are; 
Kei­go Komuro JA1KAB, Jim Lin­ton VK3PC, and Hans Zim­mer­mann, F5VKP/HB9AQS.

Con­tact: Sep­po Sisat­to, OH1VR, < Seppo.Sisatto@uta.fi >
Orga­niz­ing Committee 

TFT Build­ing is just 2 or 3 min­utes walk from the hotels list­ed below.  Area Map

Hotel Sun­route Ari­ake   <INTERNET ON-LINE RESERVATIONS>
3–1‑20 Ari­ake, Koto-ku, TOKYO 135‑0063
TEL: +81 3–5530-3610
Start­ing rate: 8/21 7500, 8/22 9000, 8/23 6800, 8/24 7500, 8/25 9000 (Sin­gle room no Break­fast; with Break­fast, add 1000)
(Online Reser­va­tion sys­tem tips: If you do not get the desired date at the “Check room rates & Avail­abil­i­ty” win­dow, just select the Month and ignore the date. Then click (SEARCH). You will get a cal­en­dar win­dow that shows num­ber of rooms avail­able and start­ing rate on each day.)

Tokyo Bay Ari­ake Wash­ing­ton Hotel   <INTERNET ON-LINE RESERVATIONS>
3–1‑28 Ari­ake, Koto-ku, TOKYO 135‑0063
TEL: +81 3–5564-0111   FAX: +81 3–5564-0525
Start­ing rate: 8/21 9950, 8/22 9950, 8/23 6000, 8/24 6600, 8/25 8600 (Sin­gle room no Breakfast)

You can find oth­er hotels at fol­low­ing web-sites;
JAPANiCAN.com
Ago­da   (Pay­ment in advance)
  Coun­try: Japan, City: Tokyo   select Loca­tion: Odaiba 

The eas­i­est way to get to the above list­ed hotels from Nari­ta Air­port is the Air­port Lim­ou­sine Bus. 
A sin­gle trip from Nari­ta to Ari­ake costs 2,700 Yen. 
Depar­ture time from Nari­ta Ter­mi­nal 2 is at 8:45, 10:55, 13:50, 15:50, 16:50, 17:50 and 18:50, daily. 
Air­port Lim­ou­sine Information