A demon­stra­tion of the modes and equip­ment avail­able to Ama­teur Radio in a dis­as­ter for emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions, will be shown at the World Radio­com­mu­ni­ca­tions Con­fer­ence in Gene­va in November.
The trail­er-mount­ed dis­plays of equip­ment with voice, text and image modes, and a mobile anten­na on Novem­ber 4–14, fol­lows a series of plan­ning meet­ings with the IARU and ITU.
IARU Inter­na­tion­al Coor­di­na­tor of Emer­gency Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Hans Zim­mer­mann HB9AQS/F5VKP has announced that his project coor­di­nat­ing was finalised at the Sep­tem­ber meet­ing of the ITU‑D SG‑2 meet­ing in Geneva
He said the equip­ment will be pro­vid­ed by the spe­cial­ist Ger­man club ‘Not­funk Deutsch­land’ (Emer­gency Radio Ger­many), in agree­ment with the IARU Mem­ber Soci­ety, Deutsch­er Ama­teur Radio Club (DARC). Oth­er IARU Mem­ber Soci­eties from near­by coun­tries are giv­ing posters and oth­er material.
Hans Zim­mer­mann said: “This will not be a field day sta­tion or even a sim­u­lat­ed emer­gency or oth­er inten­sive oper­a­tional activity.
“The pur­pose is to show how the wide range of means allows the Ama­teur Ser­vice to serve in an emer­gency situation.”
The dis­play will be oppo­site the main WRC-15 entrance on a some­what high­er open space along­side the ITU tower.
Among the infor­ma­tion mate­r­i­al will be a brief descrip­tion in sev­er­al lan­guages. The dates include a week­end and the IARU recep­tion on Novem­ber 10.
The Not­funk Deutsch­land web­site is http://notfunk-deutschland.de/html/mf‑2.html
— Jim Lin­ton VK3PC, Chair­man IARU Region 3 Dis­as­ter Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Committee.