Glob­al Sim­u­lat­ed Emer­gency Test (Glob­alSET)

This April 18, 2009, is the Ama­teur Radio Inter­na­tion­al Day, with the theme “Radio Ama­teur, Your Resource in Dis­as­ter and Emer­gency Communications”.
Also, on this day, 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 (Glob­alSET).
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:
Increase the com­mon inter­est in emer­gency communications.
Test how usable the CoA fre­quen­cies are across ITU regions.
Cre­ate prac­tices for inter­na­tion­al emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tion and
Prac­tice the relay­ing of mes­sages using all modes.
The exer­cise will build on ear­li­er Glob­alSET exer­cis­es by start­ing to pass mes­sages in a for­mat which we may have to use for the agen­cies we may serve. The mes­sage exchange will take longer than in pre­vi­ous exer­cis­es and sta­tions will have to be patient to trans­mit their mes­sages across coun­try and lan­guage boundaries.
Please remem­ber that this is not a con­test, it is an emer­gency com­mu­ni­ca­tions exer­cise to devel­op the skills we will need to pro­vide an inter­na­tion­al emer­gency network.
Mes­sages may be passed on voice (SSB), Data or CW modes.
Each IARU Region will have a HQ sta­tion oper­at­ing on voice.
A list of par­tic­i­pat­ing sta­tions will also be avail­able at www.raynet-hf.net
Par­tic­i­pat­ing sta­tions should call ‘CQ GLOBALSET’ giv­ing their call­sign and organ­i­sa­tion (AREN, RAYNET, DARC etc. ).