Saturday November 12^th 2011 11.00 — 15.00 Local Time
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 November 12^th, 2011 11.00 – 15.00 Local Time. The operation will take place on and near the emergency Centre-of-Activity (CoA) frequencies on 80, 40, 20, 17 and 15 metres (+-QRM ). This event is different to earlier ones as we will not be activating all stations around the globe at the same time, instead the event will call for stations to be active at their local time. This will mean that some stations will have to wait for HQ stations to come on air to pass their messages but will reduce the inter-region interference that may occur.

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Unfortunately there will only be one GlobalSET this year which will be on 12^th Nov 2011 1100 – 1500 local time. This is due to work pressures on the organiser of the SET which have limited the time to prepare reports from earlier events and properly organise activities for the next SET which should have occurred in May. The Emergency Communications Coordinators for Regions 2 and 3 have been consulted on the cancellation of the May event and have not made any objections.

The decision to cancel the May GlobalSET is regretted but is felt to be in the best interests of the event.

Unfortunately there will only be one GlobalSET this year which will be on 12^th Nov 2011 1100 – 1500 local time. This is due to work pressures on the organiser of the SET which have limited the time to prepare reports from earlier events and properly organise activities for the next SET which should have occurred in May. The Emergency Communications Coordinators for Regions 2 and 3 have been consulted on the cancellation of the May event and have not made any objections.

The decision to cancel the May GlobalSET is regretted but is felt to be in the best interests of the event.

The Rules for the Global Simulated Emergency Test of 13^th November 2010 have been translated into other languages and will be available via links from this article as they are uploaded.