Hi All,
I just noticed this exercise:
"Saturday May 3rd 2008 18.00 - 22.00 UTC
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 May 3rd, 2008 at 18.00 ? 22.00 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 by voice and data modes.
Please keep in mind that this is not a contest, it is an emergency
communications exercise !"
More info is available here:
http://www.iaru-r1.org/GlobalsetMay08Rules.pdf
Pskmail gets a special mention:
"Data stations should send the same message format as voice but
'structured' modes such as Winlink, ALE, PSKmail should send their
messages directly to globalset-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxx , other data modes
should attempt to relay the messages twice before sending them to
globalset-data@xxxxxxxxxxxxx for analysis."
Perhaps this is a great opportunity to pack that backpack and head out
somewhere to run some pskmail? I intend to do so anyway, anyone else?
73 de Per, sm0rwo
