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The Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference, GAREC, will be held in Curacao, Netherland Antilles on the 11th and 12th of October.
The annual conference for those engaged in providing emergency communications will this year be organised by the Dutch Amateur Radio Emergency Service (DARES) and the IARU radio society VERONA (Vereniging voor Experimenteel Radio Onderzoek in de Nederlandse Antillen).
The conference theme this year is "Learning through practicing". The program is yet to be finalised however the organisers are keen to include first-hand accounts of emergency communications following the devastating Haiti and Chile earthquakes.
The purpose of GAREC is to exchange information and experiences between all radio amateurs and groups interested in emergency communications. Most presentations at the previous conferences can be found at http://www.rientola.fi/oh3ag/garec/
The Museum of Victoria in Melbourne will be conducting an activity centred on Morse code on Sundays 11am to 3pm April to June.
Children and families will be using a Morse code sheet to work out and write down their names in code on the back of a bookmark made in the shape of the SS Titanic and during an exhibition on that famous ship and maritime disaster.
The 23rd International Marconi Day will occur on 24 April with amateur radio stations set up at historic Marconi sites.
The event run by the Cornish Radio Club has stations registered in Australia, Canada, Europe, South America and the USA.
The only Asia-Pacific region station is VK2IMD to be operated by the Hornsby Districts Radio Club at Wahroonga where Ernest Fisk received the first wireless message from the United Kingdom.
These are so called 'award stations' and contact with them qualify for an excellent award certificate.
All participating stations will be at sites that either used Marconi equipment prior to his death in 1937 or from which Marconi carried out experiments.
The list and more details about IMD is at: www.gb4imd.org.uk
The Yarra Valley Amateur Radio Group held a special event station on February 7 to recognise the efforts of Amateur Radio operators and others in providing service during the February 7th 2009 Victori
Held on Sunday 14 February at the Kyneton racecourse it was successful in more ways than one.
This is available for contacts made since the 5th of April 1982 with countries which have IARU member societies in the Asia Pacific region.
Radio amateurs from the Dominican Republic have installed an amateur voice repeater link between their country and earthquake hit Haiti, but their plan to do much more in terms of emergency communicat
The Contest Manager John Martin VK3KM has just finalised the results of this event held last November and VK3 stations have scored well including being winners in three of the five categories.
VHF, UHF and Microwave DX enthusiasts are hoping for good propagation as they begin to listen for the ambitious VK9NA DXpedition to Norfolk Island.
The 22nd Australian National Scout Jamboree 3-13 January at the Cataract Scout Park 85km south-west of Sydney will have special event station special event station VI2AJ2010 on air.
